Former Philippine leader in The Hague after arrest on drugs

The aircraft carried by former Philippine President Rodrigo arrived in the Netherlands where he will face charges crimes against humanity In the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the occasion of its death “war with drugs”.

Duterte was arrested at the Manila airport on Tuesday, and for several hours was on a charter plane flying through Dubai in The Hague, where the ICC was sitting.

A A 79-year-old man can become the first Asian former head of state to go to the ICC.

Duterte, who disputed his extradition, headed the Philippines from 2016 to 2022 and managed a fierce “war with drugs”, which saw thousands of small drug dealers, users and others, killed without trial.

The Gulfstream G550 landed in Dubai to stop at the beginning of Wednesday, and its expected departure was postponed for several hours while the Duterter received medical checks, Reuters reports.

After he landed in Rotterdam, the ICC confirmed that Duterte was aboard.

Earlier, the ICC stated that he would be taken into custody and scheduled for his initial appearance before the court.

The main political competitor of Duterte, the current President Ferdinand Marcos -Julod, played an important role. A few minutes after Duterte came out of the Philippine Air Space, Marcos made a television address, saying that the country fulfills its legal obligations.

“This is what the international community expects from us,” Markas said.

Duterte and Marcos families are the most powerful Philippine political dynasties. They merged their efforts to sweep the latest national elections in the country in 2022, but in recent months they fell when they conducted separate programs.

Duttere that is transmitted by ICC is the last turn in Political hostility that impressively unfolded.

Duterte and Marcos families created a formidable union in the 2022 elections. Against the wishes of the elder Duterte, his daughter Sarah acted as Vice President of Marcos Jr., not to seek his father’s position.

Initially, Marcos refused to cooperate with the ICC investigation, but when his relationship with the Duterte family deteriorated, he changed his position.

Vice-President Duterte stated that her father’s arrest was “abduction”, saying he had violated the Philippine’s sovereignty. On Wednesday, she left Manila in the Netherlands, her office reports.

Rodrigo Duterte had previously insisted that the ICC had no jurisdiction over the Philippines because he pulled the country out of the tribunal in 2019, three years after he took note of the growth of dead drugs.

But, according to the Roman Statute, which is the basis for the ICC, the court supports the jurisdiction over the alleged crimes committed before the nation leaves the tribunal.

The ICC investigation covers 2011-2019, which includes a period when Duterte was Davao Mayor, a common metropolis in the south of the country where his family has been holding power for decades.

The complaints filed against Duterte in the ICC claim that he retained the “death squad” of the heads of the heads of Davao’s addicts in Davao, and then repeated this model on a national scale when he was elected president.

Human Rights Watch called the Duterter’s arrest “a critical step for accountability in the Philippines.”

Duterte built a reputation as one of the safest cities of the Philippines and growing the image of a brutal bewildered man engaged in masses to remove the dark victory in the 2016 presidential election.

Polls show that he is the most popular President of the Philippines after the restoration of democracy in 1986.

His supporters threatened to hold big actions to protest against his arrest. They asked the Supreme Court to issue a restraining order against the ICC warrant – but the court did not act before the former president was displayed on Tuesday.

In social media, where the Duters supports strong next, the reaction was ambiguous.

Many appreciated the ICC for justice for those who died in the war with drugs and others defended the heritage of the Duterte, some called for broad rallies.

“Justice has served,” he reads a commentary on the Quica.

“The Philippines were safe during Duterte,” Tiktok wrote another user, saying that the former leader had built bridges, roads and other infrastructure. “He was the best president.”

Additional Fan Wang Report