Research to try to find the bodies of dozens of people linked to the rooster fighting industry and who were said to have been killed by police began near a lake on Thursday in the south of Manila, according to the Philippine Ministry of Justice.
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Fifteen police officers are the subject of an investigation following a series of mysterious disappearances in the very lucrative industry of the rooster battles which occurred in 2022 in the Philippines.
The affair rebounded last month after the appearance on television of a witness on television which claims to know where the bodies were immersed in Lake Taal, located about 80 kilometers south of the capital.
The Philippine Minister of Justice Crispin Remulla said that he had had for “multiple witnesses” capable of identifying the place where the corpses were in the lake, which extends over 230 km squarers, for “multiple witnesses.
The objective of Thursday’s mission is “to identify the area covered by research, to see the initial conditions of water and to measure the depth of the area,” said the Ministry of Justice in a press release, without mentioning the reasons for these disappearances.
“The typhoon season is coming,” the chief of national police Nicolas Torre said on Tuesday in front of the press. “We act quickly to at least try to locate the bodies. We know it’s very, very difficult. “
Each week, Philippins from all backgrounds are betting millions of dollars on matches between roosters that fight to death with sharp metallic spurs like razors attached to their legs.
This discipline, prohibited in many other countries, has survived the restrictions imposed by the pandemic of COVID-19 by launching on the internet, thus attracting an increasing number of bettors which put by using their mobile phone.
