Screengrab shows Vice President Sara Duterte in an online media briefing in November 2024.
MANILA, Philippines— Vice President Sara Duterte’s assassination threat against President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. was absolute, an agent of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) told the impeachment court on Wednesday.
At the resumption of the trial, Senator-judge Alan Peter Cayetano pressed senior NBI agent John Mark Calilung whether Duterte’s alleged kill remark against Marcos, his wife, Liza, and former House Speaker Martin Romualdez was “conditional.”
Calilung was part of the NBI Cybercrime Division team that investigated the vice president’s threat allegedly uttered during an online media briefing on November 23, 2024.
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