This Gulfstream 550, which left just before midnight last Tuesday (March 11) night, is the first cell former President Rodrigo Duterte has been put in as a prisoner of the International Criminal Court.
Duterte won’t be allowed out of it even when it stops in Dubai to refuel.
The flight from the Villamor Air Base in Pasay City to The Netherlands will take about 20 hours, including the layover at the Dubai airport.
When the jet arrives at the Rotterdam Airport, he will be transferred to a prison van which will take him on a 21 to 24 minutes ride to his cell in Sheveningen in The Hague.
Because ICC trials take long and the court has many other cases, that Sheveningen cell will be his home for at least six years, possibly 12 years.
When convicted, Duterte will not be brought back to the Philippines.
He will be incarcerated in another ICC member country.
For Duterte, the sobering reality is he will not see Davao again. At his age, 79, it is most likely he will die in a foreign prison.
Justice would have been served the more than 7,000 young men and women, and a baby girl, whose murders he is accused of having instigated.
(Text culled from the Facebook wall of Alex Allan, former Journal Editor and the FB photo release is by ABS-CBN.)
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