Jailed wife of Indonesian bomber served 9 arrest warrants
OFFICERS of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) have served nine warrants of arrest (WOA), all non-bailable offenses issued against the jailed wife of an Indonesian terror bomber killed by security forces in Sulu in August last year, PNP-CIDG director Major General Albert Ignatius D. Ferro said on Saturday.
In a report to PNP chief General Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar, the PNP-CIDG director said the warrants of arrest for the complex crime of multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder, illegal possession of explosives and violation of Republic Act 11479, or the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, were served against Resky Fantasya alias “Cici/Zainab.”
The 18-year-old Indonesian national is currently being held at the Sulu Provincial Jail in Patikul municipality.
According to Ferro, members of the CIDG Sulu Provincial Field Unit served the warrants of arrest issued against the accused by Judge Alsad Alfad of the Jolo, Sulu Regional Trial Court Branch 9 on Monday.
The official described the woman as the widow of an Indonesian terrorist shot dead by government troops during an encounter with members of the ISIS-inspired Abu Sayyaf Group in Sulu last August.
Ferro said the woman was arrested on October 10, 2020, during an anti-terror raid in Jolo and was charged for violation of RA 11479 and illegal possession of explosives before the Jolo Provincial Prosecutor’s Office three days later.
The PNP-CIDG director said two more warrants of arrest for violation of Section 4 (d) of RA 11479, or An Act to Prevent, Prohibit and Penalize Terrorism which repealed RA 9372, or the Human Security Act of 2007, and violation of Presidential Decree 1866, or illegal possession of firearms and explosives, were served on the woman this year.
“As I have said before, we will dig and search our database and will continue to work with our courts to bring out and serve those WOA against these arrestees and hold them accountable for their crimes,” said Ferro.
