Roxas hit for inaction on complaint vs police official
By Karen Boncocan
A legislator on Monday hit at Interior Secretary Mar Roxas for failing to act on complaints against an allegedly erring police official in Zamboanga del Norte.
A legislator on Monday hit at Interior Secretary Mar Roxas for failing to act on complaints against an allegedly erring police official in Zamboanga del Norte.
Should Supt. Hansel Marantan finally decide to speak up on his role in the controversial police operation that left 13 people dead here on Jan. 6, his testimony would no longer matter, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said Thursday.
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna, Philippines — A checkpoint meant for arrests, not an ambush. This was how Superintendent Hansel Marantan described the design of the police roadblock set up in Atimonan town in Quezon, to intercept an alleged criminal group along the national highway on Jan. 6 in dispelling reports that its members were [...]
Activist priest, Fr. Robert Reyes, urged the media on Monday, to keep up the coverage of the killing of 13 people in a supposed shootout in Atimonan, Quezon province, last Jan. 6 to prevent any whitewash that had once thwarted justice in the infamous “Kuratong Baleleng” gang rubout in 1995.
The final report of the police fact-finding team looking into the Atimonan shooting that took the lives of 13 people has not yet been forwarded to the National Bureau of Investigation because it will still be subjected to heavy rewriting.
A resolution formally directing the Senate to conduct an investigation into the alleged shootout in Atimonan, Quezon was filed by Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. Monday.
Checkpoints must be well-lighted, properly identified and manned by uniformed personnel. Upon approach, slow down, dim headlights and turn on cabin lights. Never step out of the vehicle.
The involvement of Superintendent Hansel Marantan in at least four sensational gun battles purportedly with criminal gangs, in which a total of 40 people were killed, over the past seven years, has puzzled Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II.
Sen. Panfilo Lacson said on Tuesday there has been information that the 13 men who were killed in a shootout with lawmen in Quezon last Sunday belonged to a group that was allegedly involved not only in the illegal numbers game jueteng but also in assassinations commissioned by prominent and small-time politicians.
