Rodrigo Duterte is in custody in The Hague for crimes against the process of humanity

Former Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte landed in the Netherlands on Wednesday and was custody At the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he is accused of crimes against humanity.

The successor and political rival of Duterte, current President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., announced Tuesday on Tuesday at the arrest of Duterte in the Filipino capital Manila. Duterte is accused of crimes against humanity, coupled to several extrajudicial murders that were performed during his exit time, trying to eradicate the drug trafficking of the country – with the help of often brutal tactics that the former president once celebrated.

Marcos-Wiens own father The country led the country as an increasingly authoritarian leader from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s ZEI that an arrest warrant of the ICC encouraged an interpol red notification, which in turn obliged the Philippine police to arrest Duterte on a flight of Hong.

“We have followed the necessary legal proceedings”, “Marcos said at a press conference Late Tuesday.

A Gulfstream plane with the 79-year-old Duterte-Die in 2022 left their office in Dubai on the long journey from Manila, where he was arrested on Tuesday at the beginning of Tuesday, and where supporters gathered to protest outside the airport prior to his departure.

Duterte will be the first former leader from Asia to be accused of the court in The Hague. His daughter, Sara Duterte, the current vice -president of the country, described the arrest and flight to the Netherlands as a form of “state kidnapping” for political purposes, In response to questions from local journalists.

But local interest groups that have long criticized his term of office and tactics celebrated the move. “We enjoy the victory of his arrest today,” said the National Union of Peoples’ LawyersThose victims represents violence and their families sponsored by the state. “It shows how international law can be used to keep state officials responsible, even when they occupy posts and perform functions that they do not put in direct contact with the underlying actions.”

According to Amnesty InternationalDuterte’s violent loud succession left up to 30,000 people during his presidency and rather as mayor of Davao City.

A lawyer himself said Duterte earlier that he would rather be confronted Also see no protection in a third country To prevent an order issued by the ICC.

The supporters of Duterte have already submitted three petitions to the Filipino Supreme Court who demands that he will be returned to Manila, on behalf of his other daughter, Veronica Duterte, and his son, the current mayor of Davao City Baste Duterte. The petitions claim that, since the Philippines withdrew from the Convention that enables the ICC, it should no longer be competent.

The ICC Officer of Justice argues that since the incidents he and his team have investigated for the prosecution of Duterte before 2019, the court has still been competent on the alleged crimes.

But the Filipino President Marcos said that the public prosecutors and the police of the country had no other choice than to honor the ICC behalf, otherwise they risked losing international cooperation between law enforcement in the future. He also stated that the ICC investigation had not exercised any collaboration from the Filipino law enforcement.

The ICC persecution, led by main prosecutor Karim KhanSays that there are reasonable grounds for believing that security forces have killed dozens of people under the control of Duterte and instructions who have been labeled as criminals or drug dealers, many of them in and around Davao City, who ruled Duterte for more than two decades. The ICC set The investigation in 2021 and initially focused on the period between 2011 and 2019. Duterte became president in 2016.

Duterte’s first performance in court will be planned now that he has arrived in the Netherlands, the ICC said.