“At the age of 16, I already killed someone. A real person, a rumble, a stabbing. I was just 16 years old. It was just over a look. How much more now that I am president?” Duterte said on Nov. 9 in Vietnam, Agence France-Presse reported.
It’s not the first time the leader has admitted to killing. In April last year, Duterte told Esquire magazine that he “maybe” stabbed someone to death when he was 17 years old — possibly the same incident the president was referring to in Vietnam. In the Esquire interview, he added that he has never killed an innocent person.
In December last year, he declared that he had personally shot dead criminal suspects during his time as Davao City mayor.
