The fiancée of slain Dutch non-government organization worker asked the Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday to file a murder case instead of homicide against alleged killers of Wilhelm Geertman.
Rescuers gave up hope of finding any more survivors from a cargo ship that sank in the frigid North Sea off the Dutch coast, saying Thursday they are searching for the bodies of the seven crewmen still missing. That brings the presumed death toll to 11.
The Authorities should consider the slain Dutch development worker Wilhelmus JJ Lutz Geertman to be a victim of extrajudicial killing due to his involvement in campaigns against landlessness, mining, logging and a large freeport project in Aurora province, his brother said on Saturday.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has created a task force to investigate the death of Dutch development worker Wilhelmus JJ Lutz Geertman.
Development worker William Geertman became the third Dutch national to die in the Philippines since last week.
A Dutch national died around 6 p.m. on Thursday due to a still unknown cause in his bedroom inside his rented apartment in Barangay Paknaan, Mandaue City.
A teenage Dutch tourist, celebrating Independence Day at the Rizal Park, was drugged and then robbed of more than P20,000 in cash by seven “friendly” Filipinas, including an elderly woman, in Manila, police said.
