An episode of corruption unleashes anger in the square
The Filipino police arrested 49 people suspected of having launched stones, bottles and incendiary bombs against the agents and that they had blocked heavily surveillance roads and bridges that lead to the presidential palace, while in the capital Manila was held a peaceful anti -corruption manifestation, according to officials and witnesses. It reports ap.
The clashes outside the building, which lasted several hours, occurred while over 33,000 other demonstrators gathered in a historic park and at a monument to democracy in Manila. A hundred demonstrators have staged violence, split windows and attacked the security forces, injuring seventy agents. Some waved Filipin flags and showed posters with anti -corruption slogans, others the flag with skull and tibie associated with the ONE Piece manga already seen in recent protests in Indonesia, Nepal and France. It is not known if President Marcos Jr. was in the Malacanang building during the clashes. After the arrests, the police declared that the situation was “under control”, but that he had not yet identified the responsible for the violence.
