JUST IN: Pasay prosecutor’s office finds probable cause to charge Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for inciting to sedition. | via Raffy Santos, ABS-CBN News
MANILA – There is enough evidence to charge Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV with inciting to sedition, state prosecutors said, citing a speech wherein he allegedly urged soldiers to kill President Rodrigo Duterte.
The complaint, which was filed by a lawyers’ group, cited Trillanes’ speech at the Senate last Oct. 3, where he revealed alleged evidence of the President’s unexplained wealth.
The senator supposedly said in his speech: “Kung makikita ito ng mga sundalo, M-60 ang gagamitin sa iyo kasi marami-rami ito.”
(If only soldiers saw this, they would use an M-60 on you because this is a lot.)
Trillanes’ words fell “within the scope of inciting to sedition,” Pasay City prosecutor Joahna Gabatino-Lim said in a resolution dated March 14.
The speech, however, was “not sufficient to engender a well-founded belief that he directly proposes to others a swift attack accompanied by violence, intimidation, threat, strategy or stealth against the government,” according to the document.
Trillanes, also in his Oct. 3 speech, dismissed the President’s claim that he had bank accounts in Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Australia, and the United States.
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The senator supposedly said in his speech: “Kung makikita ito ng mga sundalo, M-60 ang gagamitin sa iyo kasi marami-rami ito.”
(If only soldiers saw this, they would use an M-60 on you because this is a lot.)
Trillanes’ words fell “within the scope of inciting to sedition,” Pasay City prosecutor Joahna Gabatino-Lim said in a resolution dated March 14.
The speech, however, was “not sufficient to engender a well-founded belief that he directly proposes to others a swift attack accompanied by violence, intimidation, threat, strategy or stealth against the government,” according to the document.
Trillanes, also in his Oct. 3 speech, dismissed the President’s claim that he had bank accounts in Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Australia, and the United States.
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