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00:00Vice President Sara Duterte went to the International Criminal Court
00:04to ask to see the former President Rodrigo Duterte
00:08before his trial in the pre-trial chamber.
00:11Watch this, Ian Cruz.
00:17Before the trial of the former President Rodrigo Duterte
00:20in the pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court,
00:23his daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, went to the ICC.
00:28She was accompanied by Senator Robin Padilla and Attorney Harry Roque.
00:32Yesterday, there was a conference with lawyers
00:36and we are here right now trying to access the former President.
00:43We have our reasons, but we will try to avoid this preliminary hearing.
00:52But our reasons will be private.
00:56At that time, they haven't seen Duterte,
00:59even Vice President Duterte hasn't seen him yet.
01:03We haven't seen the former President yet.
01:07The whole day yesterday, he wasn't seen
01:10because he didn't attend the medical examination.
01:15So now, the problem here in the ICC is that it takes a long time to see him.
01:20So we have just submitted the form to visit him.
01:23My priority is to make sure that they will see each other.
01:26According to the court, there will be three former President's lawyers.
01:30But for now, Roque said,
01:32the former Executive Secretary Salvador Mejaldea is Duterte's lawyer.
01:38In a letter to the ICC, Duterte appointed Mejaldea
01:41as one of his lawyers in the hearing of the ICC.
01:44He was also appointed by the former President
01:47to assist him in the pre-trial chamber.
01:51Duterte asked for the help of the Office of Public Counsel for the Defense
01:55according to the visit to his bodyguards of the registry.
01:59Yesterday, Mejaldea went to the Hague Penitentiary Institution.
02:03But the reception staff said that Rodrigo Duterte is not there.
02:07Where is the loss? Where he is right now?
02:09Mejaldea first said that they asked the ICC,
02:12which is usually the hospital of the former President,
02:14because of his condition for trial.
02:17Next, the International Criminal Court, or ICC,
02:21assured that Duterte is in their custody.
02:24They brought him to their detention center
02:26after all the medical checks.
02:28According to the ICC spokesman,
02:30standard practice is necessary to protect the health
02:34and well-being of the suspect in their custody.
02:38Well, that's the beauty of the ICC.
02:41The due process is really an intrinsic part.
02:45The right to a fair trial and the right to an accused.
02:50With the help of the ICC, Duterte called the Philippine Embassy
02:54to help him visit his lawyer and his family.
02:58The Embassy brought him to the ICC.
03:01First, President Juan Juan Marcos said that
03:04the arrest of Duterte is not a help to the ICC,
03:09but a fulfillment of an obligation to Interpol
03:11that implemented the arrest warrant.
03:14When Malacanang confirmed,
03:16the Office of the President paid the private jet
03:19that brought the former President to The Hague, Netherlands
03:22because it was part of the assistance
03:24that was given by the government to Interpol.
03:26If the arrest warrant is issued against another respondent
03:30and sent to Interpol,
03:32the government will still help.
03:35But for now, they have no information about it.
03:39In an interview with CLTV 36,
03:42former PNP chief Oscar Albayalde said
03:44that he is hoping that the government will protect him.
03:47We are also hoping for our government
03:50to protect us.
03:54The Palace also insisted that the President did not
03:57issue a warrant for Duterte's arrest.
04:00Next, Senator Bato de la Rosa said
04:02that he felt that the President issued a warrant
04:05and that he should defend his words
04:08regarding the investigation of the ICC.
04:11Vice President Sardo-Duterte also said
04:13in an ambush interview
04:15that the President wrote a letter to him
04:17assuring that the government will not help the ICC.
04:22We had a meeting earlier,
04:24I was with the President in one of his meetings.
04:26We did not discuss the letter.
04:29So if it is about Senator Bato,
04:32the betrayal of a person,
04:35if he is being accused,
04:37this is not an issue.
04:42The President, the government,
04:45should not betray the law.
04:48He should not betray the interests of the country.
04:52One of the plans of the former President
04:55was to ask for Duterte's interim release.
04:59Attorney Joel Butuyan,
05:01one of the five Filipinos on the ICC's list of counsel,
05:04has conditions of application for this.
05:07Consideration if he will escape.
05:10Second, is there a risk that he will intimidate,
05:16he will antagonize witnesses and the other parties
05:20if he is released.
05:22Third, will he tamper with evidence?
05:27The court's consideration is not included.
05:29The age of the defendant
05:32It is not easy to get an interim release from the ICC.
05:36The burden of proof is on the part of the accused
05:42to convince the judges that you will not fly away
05:48from the Court of Jurisdiction.
05:50But if he gets an interim release,
05:53it is unlikely that he will be able to return to the country.
05:57One of the women who was killed in the War on Drugs on 2017
06:00hopes that she will be able to witness personally in the ICC
06:04so that the former President can hear what they will say.
06:07Her message to the former President
06:09I hope there is no offland of harm.
06:12I hope my husband is still alive.
06:15I hope the victims of the police are still alive.
06:28You will pay for everything you did to us.
06:32For GMA Integrated News, I am Ian Cruz, your witness.