While President Aquino is taking time to review the investigation report on the January 6 killing of 13 alleged criminals in Atimonan, Quezon, Malacañang said Wednesday there’s no hanky-panky involved.
The families of at least two of the victims in the Atimonan, Quezon shooting are getting impatient with Malacañang’s decision to go slow in reviewing the recommendations that the Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation submitted to the Palace over a week ago.
Assisted by two lawyers, Superintendent Hansel Marantan submitted a four-page affidavit to agents of the National Bureau of Investigation on Friday.
They did not only break police checkpoint rules but they also went beyond their jurisdiction.
Whatever the military’s witness says, it will not affect the National Bureau of Investigation’s finding that the killings of 13 people in Atimonan, Quezon province, on January 6 were not the results of a shootout between government security forces and alleged criminals, an NBI official said Saturday.
The Atimonan massacre will go down in history as the Army Special Forces’ “finest” hour. They killed 13 “criminals” without incurring a single casualty in a one-way shoot-out.
Chief Superintendent James Melad, the former director of the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) police, who rushed to the site of a supposed gun battle with alleged criminals in Atimonan, Quezon on January 6, on Friday said he could not remember what Supt. Hansel Marantan was wearing when he saw the wounded intelligence officer in the hospital.
Malacañang on Friday stood by the pronouncement of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima that the Jan. 6 operation in Atimonan, Quezon, was not a shootout, debunking the claim of Superintendent Hansel Marantan and relieved police officials of Southern Tagalog.
The family of Victor “Vic” Siman, who appeared to be the primary target of a police operation in Atimonan, Quezon, welcomed on Friday the initial findings of a government investigation showing that the incident was not a shootout.
