“Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque says reckless imprudence would be the more on point criminal offense to file against quarantine violators rather than murder.”
What Vera Files found
In a public briefing a day prior, Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said individuals infected with COVID-19 who refuse to go into quarantine andconsequently infect other persons who eventually die of the virus should be charged with murder. Duterte concurred during the same briefing.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Malacañang made this claim around 9 June 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 18 June 2021, 9 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.
Malacañang has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/yjSiOZ55HOY?t=45
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/media-interview/interview-with-presidential-spokesperson-harry-roque-…
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/dzrhnews/videos/1371188429920949
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/xctNTBRjfzU?t=3875
Links recorded by Vera Files. Some posts may have been deleted since.
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