PNP EYES CHARGES VS HONEYLET FOR HITTING POLICE OFFICER’S HEAD WITH CELLPHONE

THE Philippine National Police (PNP) is eyeing to file a complaint against Honeylet Avanceña, the partner of former-president Rodrigo Duterte, for hitting a female police officer with a mobile phone on the head.

The officer, a member of the Special Action Force (SAF), was treated for a lump on the head after being struck with a cellphone by Avanceña.

The incident took place at the Villamor Air Base in Pasay City on Tuesday when Duterte was being escorted to a plane bound for The Hague in the Netherlands to face the International Criminal Court (ICC) trial for charges of crimes against humanity over his administration’s bloody drug war.

PNP spokesperson Brig. Gen. Jean Fajardo said a case of direct assault is being readied against Avanceña.

“The police officer who was hurt and got injured will file a case,” Fajardo said in a news briefing at Camp Crame in Quezon City on Thursday.

On Thursday, the Philippine National Police (PNP) released a top-of-the head video showing Avanceña struck the unnamed police officer on the head while Duterte was boarding a plane bound for The Hague.

Fajardo said that prior to the hitting on the head, they were asking Avanceña and her daughter Kitty to step aside to avoid obstructing Duterte’s transfer to the plane.

When Kitty was separated from her mother and police officers stood between them, Avanceña was heard shouting: “Give me back my daughter!”

In an attempt to push aside the officers blocking her, Avanceña struck one of them with a cellphone.