The police fired the firearms of the victims in the infamous Quezon shooting incident and shot one of the victims despite a soldier’s call to take the wounded to the hospital, the members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines told the Department of Justice (DoJ) handling the Atimonan killing preliminary investigation.
The formal preliminary investigation into the infamous Quezon “shootout” will push through as there is no order from the Supreme Court stopping the probe, Justice Secretary Leila De Lima said Tuesday.
The Philippine Army on Thursday said that soldiers tagged in the Atimonan, Quezon “rubout” will not be discharged from service outright.
The more Supt. Hansel Marantan opens his mouth, the more he gets buried deeper in a quicksand of public opinion.
The police official who was killed with alleged illegal gambling lord Victor “Vic” Siman in Atimonan, Quezon, on Jan. 6 was under prosecution for murder, according to the records of the National Bureau of Investigation.
They did not only break police checkpoint rules but they also went beyond their jurisdiction.
A third witness has surfaced to bolster the testimony of the two witnesses who earlier said that no shootout occurred in a Jan. 6 encounter in which government forces killed 13 members of an alleged criminal group at a checkpoint in Atimonan, Quezon, according to Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.
The new Chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) is not losing sleep over the controversies plaguing the 148,000-strong force.
Careful not to comment on the investigation of the Atimonan, Quezon, operation that killed 13 people, the new regional director of the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon) police assured the public that he would enforce stricter compliance with proper operational procedures, including the setting up of checkpoints.
The initial findings in the investigation of the gun slaying of 13 people in Atimonan, Quezon province, on Jan. 6 have bolstered the suspicions of some residents of this city that a similar incident that happened here two months ago was a police rubout.
Investigators are puzzling out some things that have been found on 13 people killed in a supposed shootout with police and soldiers in Atimonan, Quezon province, on Jan. 6. For instance, coin purses filled with pebbles were found in each of 11 of the 13 victims.
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.
Environmentalist Tirso Lontok Jr. stepped out of the second vehicle, hands raised. A companion also got off, raising his hands. If they were thinking that following orders to get off would save their lives, they were wrong. Gunfire ripped the air and they fell into a roadside canal, dead.
