A group of lawyers on Thursday said they would be filing various criminal charges, including sedition, against Sen. Antonio Trillanes 4th for encouraging soldiers to kill President Rodrigo Duterte in a speech delivered more than a month ago.

According to the group headed by former congressman Jacinto Paras, Trillanes lied about the President’s supposed multimillion-peso bank deposits and called on the military to use their M-16 rifles and shoot Duterte.

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