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==Tentorio kin closely monitors murder case== | |||
*Source: http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationsubcategoryid=200&articleid=782049 | |||
*February 28, 2012 03:05 PM | |||
:by John Unson | |||
COTABATO CITY, Philippines - Relatives of slain Italian priest Fausto Tentorio are monitoring all developments in the government’s effort to prosecute the killers. | |||
Tentorio, who belong to the Pontifical Institute of Foreign Mission, was gunned down Oct. 17, 2011 while about to board his vehicle in North Cotabato’s Arakan town. He was on his way to a meeting of priests at the Bishop’s Palace in Kidapawan City. | |||
A compatriot of Tentorio, Fr. Peter Geremiah, who is involved in various humanitarian projects in the adjoining provinces of Sultan Kudarat and North Cotabato, said Tentorio’s family in Italy are aware that the government is now in custody of the priest's confessed killer, Jimmy Ato, and that he and his three accomplices have been charged with murder. | |||
“They are observing all development pertaining to the case of Fr. Fausto,” Geremiah told reporters.”We keep them abreast on all issues pertaining to the case.” | |||
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) filed last week at the provincial prosecutor’s office in Kidapawan City the criminal charges against Ato, his younger sibling named Roberto, and two others, Sultan Sampulna and Dima Maligudan Sampulna. The three suspects remain at large. | |||
Geremiah said even the Italian embassy in Manila has persistently been asking for updates on the murder of Tentorio. | |||
“We have long expected the filing of criminal cases against the alleged culprits,” Geremiah said. | |||
The priest said they are, however, “confused” on why the two alleged plotters of the Tentorio murder, Arakan-based entrepreneur-politician William Buenaflor and Chief Inspector Benjamin Rioflorido, who was at the helm of the town’s municipal police command at the time the priest was killed, have both been “delisted” from the complaint sheet that the NBI filed at the prosecutor’s office. | |||
Buenaflor and Rioflorido were both tagged by Ato as among the brains in the murder of Tentorio in a sworn statement. | |||
Ato stated in an affidavit that Buenaflor and Rioflorido were present in several meetings where they planned to kill Tentorio. | |||
“But their names were not included in the list. The NBI agents and the `Task Force Fausto’ told me that their next move is to file murder charges against these personalities,” said Geremiah. | |||
The task force is a special interim investigating body comprised of officers from the Region 12 police office in Gen. Santos City. | |||
Tentorio was to leave their convent for Kidapawan City when Ato approached him, pulled out a 9MM pistol and shot the priest 10 times in different parts of the body. | |||
Lawyer Virgilio Mendez, deputy director for regional operations of NBI’s office in Region 10, earlier said they have sufficient evidence linking the four suspects to the murder of Tentorio. | |||
Environmentalist | |||
Tentorio was critical about the encroachment of capitalists attempting to venture into various profit-oriented projects in supposedly protected ancestral domains of hinterland tribes in Arakan and surrounding towns located at the foot of Mt. Apo. | |||
He gained popularity for his activities, which are meant to generate awareness among tribal communities to protect all natural resources --- forests, rivers and strategic minerals --- that can be found inside tribal enclaves “moneyed outsiders” are interested in. | |||
So popular was the murdered Italian priest that thousands joined the burial march when he was laid to rest at the compound of the Bishop’s residence in Kidapawan City, beside the grave of a slain compatriot, Fr. Tulio Favali. | |||
Favali was murdered by drunken militiamen, led by siblings Norberto and Edilberto Manero, in Barangay La Esperanza in Tulunan, North Cotabato in the late 1980s. | |||
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*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=407970 | *Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=407970 | ||
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