Filipino groups to protest Marcos visit in Berlin

Filipino migrant organizations in Europe and Germany will welcome Philippine president Marcos Jr’s arrival in Berlin with protests. Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) Europe together with ALPAS (Alternatibong Pangarap Para Sa Ating Sambayanan) Pilipinas, GABRIELA Germany, and the Deutsch-Philippinesche Freunde e.V. (German-Filipino Friends) are organizing a demonstration at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Berlin tomorrow March 12, 2024 from 5-6.30pm CET as part of a series of actions condemning Marcos Jr.’s human rights violations. “Marcos Jr.’s visit, designed to cleanse his family’s rotten image in Germany and the international community, will not be warmly welcomed. The President cannot hide from his family’s repugnant reputation,” said BAYAN Europe in a statement. The group called out the German government for agreeing to supply drones to the Marcos administration amid rising tensions in the West Philippine Sea. Earlier this year, the German Cooperation for International Cooperation (GIZ) pledged to provide additional four units of Trinity F90+ drones worth €129 million (P7.9 billion) to the Philippine Coast Guard to be used for imagery and reconnaissance purposes in the disputed waterways. “By providing ongoing military and political support to the Marcos Jr. regime, Germany and Europe are complicit to these abuses and criminal acts,” BAYAN Europe explained. The groups organizing the demonstration will also take part in the International Peoples’ Tribunal (IPT) on May 17-18, 2024 in Europe. Convened by the International Association of Democracy Lawyers (IADL) and the Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle (FFPS), the IPT seeks to investigate war crime charges against the US-supported Marcos and Duterte regimes.

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