Philippine ex-President Duterte to face murder charges at ICC for drug war killings

Rotterdam, the Netherlands – a plane carrying a former leader in the Philippines Rodrigo Deutri to International Criminal Court To face accusations of bloody “war on drugs”, I took off to Rotterdam on Wednesday, after delaying it a few hours while stopping the stopping Dubai.
Dotte, who led Philipini From 2016 to 2022, he was arrested early on Tuesday in Manila, which is the largest step so far in the International Criminal Court investigations into alleged crimes against humanity during a drug control campaign that killed thousands and has been condemned around the world.
Dotte, 79, can become the first former Asian state president to be tried in the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
The arrest warrant for the International Criminal Court says that when he established the president, Duttiti funded, funded and armed with “death teams” in his war on drugs that carried out alleged drug users and merchants.
In the coming days, it will be brought before the judge and the allegations will be read in the court. Public prosecutors accuse him of crimes against humanity due to systematic attacks that led to dozens of killing.
A source in the International Criminal Court, which occurs, said that his identity is not disclosed, that the plane that carries the former president to Rotterdam, the airport that serves The Hague, has started from Dubai, which was also confirmed by flight trackers.
Dutete received medical attention during a hiatus in Dubai. The news of the Philippine broadcaster ABS-CBN on its website showed what they said are police doctors who check Dutete as he lies on a plane bed.
A spokesman for the Philippine National Police said that medical checks were routine “signs and control of regular vitality.”
About 20 anti -material protesters gathered outside the International Criminal Court with banners and mask depicting it as a vampire. A handful of pro -material demonstrators also gathered in the court building in The Hague.
At home, the families of the victims of the Philippine drug war, Durat, re -arrested the hopes of justice.
“I was surprised and felt as if I had returned to life because what we were fighting was finally his fruits – we finally achieve justice for our loved ones who took us,” said Jerika Ann Pico, a widow of a man who was killed during the war.
His daughter Sarah DotertiHer office said in a statement, but the country’s vice president, he took the morning trip to Amsterdam, but she did not say what she intended to do there or for how long she planned to stay in the Netherlands.
The press office of the International Criminal Court rejected the comment. Dotti’s lawyer did not immediately respond to the comment. Dubai officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Junior A news conference on Tuesday told that the plane carrying my life was on its way to The Hague, saying that this would allow the former president to “confront crimes against humanity in relation to his bloody drug war.”
The drug war was the signing campaign platform that swept the mercury Dotte in 2016. During the six years in office, 6,200 suspects were killed during drug control operations, due to the number of police.
Activists say the real losses were much larger, as drug users sometimes shot in mysterious circumstances, and some of them were in the community “monitoring lists” after recording treatment.

Silverfire Bello, a former labor minister and a lawyer for the former president, said a legal team will meet to assess options and seek clarity about the place where Doterti will be taken and whether they will be granted.
Salvador Billo, the former chief legal advisor, said that the younger daughter of Petrett, Veronica, plans to submit a request from the court to the Philippine Supreme Court to force the government to return it.
The arrest is an amazing change in the influential family’s wealth, which formed a huge alliance with Marcus to help him Earn 2022 elections With a huge margin.
But Marcus and his vice president have since been bitter repercussions, and reached its climax in the isolation of Sara Deitti last month by a lower house led by Markos.