THE patrolman charged with inciting to sedition has continued to challenge authorities, even mocking the case filed against him over his social media posts protesting the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
“Kung sinumang prosecutor yung pumirma sa inciting to sedition case na yan, isa ka ring malaking BANGAG! Or baka BAYAD?🤭 Lecture’an kita ng Constitution? G! Hahaha,” Patrolman Francis Steve Fontillas wrote in a Facebook post.
Fontillas even invited his fellow officers to “visit” him in the Netherlands where Duterte is detained.
“Sasabihin ko yung location ko. Daanan niyo na lang ako dito sa Netherlands. Tapos libre ko kayo. Kape tayo sa Starbucks The Hague,” he said.
The Quezon City Police District charged Fontillas with inciting to sedition under Article 142 of the Revised Penal Code in relation to the Cybercrime Prevention Act.
National Police Commission Commissioner Rafael Vicente Calinisan also ordered an investigation and administrative charges against Fontillas, saying, “The uniformed service must be forever apolitical. The PNP’s primary function is to ensure public safety, enforce the law, and serve and protect the people. They are not meant to take political sides.”
Calinisan added that Fontillas’ social media activity violated the Primer on Personnel Decorum and the Philippine National Police Code of Ethics.
Fontillas has criticized the government’s failure to protect Duterte and called on fellow police officers to “not stay silent” in the face of what he described as an injustice while accusing senior police officials of political bias for allegedly following “unlawful” orders from President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
