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00:00Vice President Sara Duterte decided to apply for legal aid to the ICC
00:04for her case against former President Rodrigo Duterte.
00:08The ICC's pre-trial chamber will decide how to arrest the former president
00:13according to her lead counsel.
00:15And from The Hague, Netherlands,
00:17please welcome Marie Zuman.
00:24Pia, for the third time,
00:26Vice President Sara Duterte visited her father,
00:30former President Rodrigo Duterte,
00:32here in the Scriveningen Prison.
00:34And according to her,
00:36her father was transferred to a regular detention facility.
00:40His father is no longer in the hospital part of the facility.
00:44According to her health,
00:46her sugar level is controlled.
00:48And the sugar level is monitored four times a day
00:54by former President Rodrigo Duterte.
00:56His other vital signs are fine,
00:58but he is still suffering from diarrhea.
01:01The former president watches television for hours.
01:06As Vice President Sara said,
01:08her mother, Elizabeth Zimmerman, will come here
01:11to visit the former president.
01:14My mother is coming.
01:16My mother is coming.
01:18When?
01:20I want a date.
01:22But they already got the Schengen Visa.
01:24It's complete.
01:26My mother already has a Schengen Visa.
01:30And then, I think she decided last night
01:36that she will come here.
01:38Whether or not she can enter,
01:41she will come here.
01:48Atty. Nicholas Kaufman said
01:50that the interim release will be possible in due time.
01:54When asked if they will ask for free assistance
01:56or service from the OPCD,
01:58or Office of Public Counsel for the Defense,
02:02this is what Atty. Kaufman said.
02:04There's no need for the OPCD.
02:06I think that's the unit you're referring to.
02:08That's right.
02:09They're a very important unit at this court,
02:11but they provide logistic assistance,
02:13administrative assistance,
02:14but they don't provide substantive assistance
02:16to any team at the court,
02:18whether it be legally aided or privately funded.
02:24It's pointless for me to harbor feelings
02:30about what happened.
02:32President Duterte will not return to the Philippines.
02:39Vice President Sara Duterte asked about this
02:42in her virtual conference
02:44about her feelings towards National Security Advisor Eduardo Año,
02:47who was part of the cabinet of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
02:51She said that he was part of the core group
02:53that planned to arrest the former president,
02:56which was rejected by Año.
02:58So what we should do as a country
03:02is move on from what happened.
03:06What will we do as our ways forward
03:11as a country and as a people from what happened?
03:17Despite this,
03:18their field continues to find ways
03:20to bring the father back to the Philippines.
03:23In yesterday's interview with the lead counsel,
03:25former President Nicholas Kaufman,
03:27she said that one of their plans
03:29in the pre-trial chamber one
03:31was to arrest Duterte.
03:33Everybody saw what happened to him
03:36when he returned to the Philippines,
03:38was put onto a plane and thrown over here.
03:43So you will be filing for interim release?
03:46I'm not going to divulge defense strategy.
03:48Indirect co-perpetrator is Duterte
03:51under the warrant of arrest.
03:53The ICC released Duterte under the warrant of arrest
03:56for murder as a crime against humanity.
03:59Duterte was convinced by the nature of the case
04:02that he brought it back yesterday
04:05to the ICC detention center.
04:07Aside from this,
04:08Kaufman did not give any other details
04:10on how to defend Duterte
04:12in the confirmation of charges hearing on September 23.
04:15Kaufman still did not say
04:17who will be a part of the legal team,
04:19but he is still consulting
04:21with Filipino lawyers.
04:23I'm already taking advice from Filipino lawyers.
04:25I have to in a case like this.
04:27There is an essential element of any case
04:29of the International Criminal Court
04:31that there is a need for foreign lawyers.
04:33So there will definitely be involvement
04:35of Filipino lawyers. I need them.
04:37According to Vice President Duterte,
04:39there is another foreign lawyer
04:41he will talk to and interview
04:43to add to the legal team of the former president.
04:45They are also thinking of applying
04:47for legal aid in the ICC.
04:49How much is the cost
04:51of our family
04:53in the case of
04:55President Rodrigo Duterte in the ICC?
04:57As of now,
04:59we have not talked to
05:01a lawyer.
05:03But I already asked
05:05him
05:07if it is possible
05:09to apply for legal aid
05:11in the ICC.
05:13And we
05:15continued to talk about this.
05:17Yesterday, we had a meeting
05:19and we were not able to take up
05:21the topic of the budget.
05:23But he knows
05:25because the other day
05:27I already told him
05:29that there is a high
05:31possibility that we will
05:33apply for legal aid
05:35and this is not a privately funded
05:37case.
05:39Almost every day, he says, the former president
05:41travels and was transferred
05:43to a regular detention facility
05:45in the hospital part of the facility.
05:47Sometimes, he checks his blood sugar
05:49every day.
05:51So far,
05:53at the time I was there,
05:55his blood sugar was
05:57not a problem.
05:59He was controlled by their medications.
06:01He still has access to
06:03nurses and doctors 24 hours a day.
06:05Despite being
06:07a busy person, the vice president assured
06:09that he will not neglect his work
06:11even if he is in the Netherlands.
06:13Despite being a busy person,
06:15he has a duty to the father of a Filipino.
06:21Pia, just a while ago,
06:23Atty. Nicholas Kaufman
06:25was here in the detention facility
06:27and according to him,
06:29the former president's
06:31location in his
06:33detention cell is good.
06:35Later tonight,
06:37around this time,
06:39another foreign lawyer
06:41will be interviewed
06:43by Vice President Sara
06:45to be part of the defense team
06:47of the former president
06:49as a co-counsel.
06:51And that's the latest news
06:53from The Hague, Netherlands.
06:55For GMA Integrated News,
06:57I'm Maris Umali, your witness.
07:11For GMA Integrated News, I'm Maris Umali.