brig. General Nicholas Torre III, head of the Quezon City Police Department (QCPD), said on social media last week that the creator of “Exclusion Zone, Filipino Gangs” aired on his platform was found to be a German national. said.
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Police are preparing criminal charges against three German nationals believed to be behind a documentary that portrays Quezon City’s barangays as lawless communities under the control of notorious criminal gangs.
brig. General Nicholas Torre III, head of the Quezon City Police Department (QCPD), said on social media last week that the creator of “Exclusion Zone, Filipino Gangs” aired on his platform was found to be a German national. said.
“The ones being tagged are two men and one woman, all German,” Torre said yesterday on dzBB radio in Filipino. .
He also did not mention what charges the police are preparing against them for maliciously harming Quezon City barangays.
He said the documentary was released by the network Amazon Prime Video in November 2019 and was reposted on Facebook’s free documentary on April 26 last year.
The documentary, which allegedly features the lawless community of Barangay 2A in Quezon City, has been viewed 2.9 million times on Facebook.
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In the video, the producers showed the entire Pajo Street as a lawless zone, presumably under the control of a band of thugs led by a certain Jojo of the Batanga City Prison gang. It is not clear whether it was actually referring to the actual Batang City Prison gang.
The documentary also portrayed everyone in the community, including women and children, as thieves and murderers.
According to the documentary, JoJo supposedly checks his territory on a motorcycle, and is notorious for harboring hardened criminals that even seasoned cops wouldn’t dare enter.
However, an investigation revealed that the seven people in the documentary, including Jojo, were not criminals, but paid actors.
According to Torre, a digital creator named Marj Estrada-Rosas recruited seven people and offered to pay 500 pesos each and groceries to participate in the video. However, as the first payment he only received P200 each.
Torre said they were targeting fraud charges against Estafa, or possibly the Germans, for waiving financial obligations to the people they probably hired as actors.
Contrary to what is depicted in the video, Torre said Pajo Street and the rest of Barangay 2A were not included in the list of crime-prone areas.
In a telephone interview, he said the area was unlikely to be a hotbed of crime because of its proximity to the QCPD headquarters at Camp Kalingal.
Torre said Jojo isn’t a hardened criminal, but rather a scavenger with no record of heinous crimes in the police database.
Pointing to the area as a bad place for criminals, a police official said law enforcement was not afraid to enter the area. Told.
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