This was how The Liberation, a leading newspaper in France, headlined its four-page story about President Duterte, whose first 100 days in office has been marked with the death of over 3,000 drug suspects.
Written
by Arnaud Vaulerin, the article described how Duterte, the long-time
mayor of Davao City, rid his turf of rebels allegedly with the help of
the purported Davao Death Squad formed under his watch.
Vaulerin's
sources, whose names were withheld for their safety, also narrated how
Duterte was called the "Little King of the Poor" by his supporters.
Also
superimposed in red and bold were the President's series of expletives
against Pope Francis and US President Barack Obama, as well as his
controversial remark citing Adolf Hitler and the Jewish Holocaust in his
war on drugs.
Vaulerin and his article has drawn a deluge of criticism from Duterte's supporters.
Speaking to ABS-CBN News, some Filipinos based in France insisted that branding Duterte as a serial murderer is wrong.
"Unang-una,
ito ang nagpa-stress sa akin eh. Hindi maganda sa akin, na naka-front
page siya na serial killer siya... Masakit para sa akin bilang die-hard
supporter ni Duterte na serial killer ang ating Presidente," said
overseas Filipino worker, Henie Caludtiag.
First
and foremost, I found this stressful. I don't find it good that he is
on the front page being labelled as a 'serial killer.' It's offensive
for a die-hard supporter like me that our President be called as such.
Analiza
Gagalac, another Pinoy expatriate, quipped: "Tanong d'yan, na-justify
ba nila na siya ay [The question is, were they able to justify that he's
a] serial killer?
Several Filipino associations in Paris plan to stage demonstrations to condemn the newspaper and its journalist.
Before
this, Duterte's anti-narcotics crackdown also caught the attention of
several other international media outfits, like the New York Times and
Thailand's The Nation.
The
President, for his part, has slammed international and local "spin
doctors for showing him in the worst light possible. He has also
lambasted foreign bodies criticizing his drug war, saying that Manila
"will survive" even without aid from its allies.
source:abscbn
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