Special team to focus on Amelie’s case to be formed
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Cebu City chapter plans to create a special committee to focus on the case of slain lawyer Amelie Alegre.
Lawyer Anabelle Pulvera-Page, IBP director, said officers of the lawyers’ group are set to meet in the first week of October to discuss the matter.
“There has to be a committee to follow up the case of Atty. Alegre,” said Page in a brief conversation with reporters at the start of the Law Week yesterday.
Alegre’s family has not sought help from the IBP, but Page said they are willing to help to make sure that justice is served.
Alegre, a a member of the IBP Cebu City chapter, was gunned down in her car last Aug. 13 in Mandaue city by two men on a motorcycle.
No suspects have been arrested or charges filed.
Her law firm partner, lawyer Briccio Boholst, whom she was about to drop off at home, was shot and wounded along with another officemate.
Boholst is a former president of the IBP Cebu City chapter.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is conducting a separate probe on the incident upon the request of Alegre’s family.
NBI 7 Assistant Director Augusto Isidoro said they are still reaching out to witnesses.
“Ongoing pa yong investigation namin. (Our investigation is still ongoing),” he said.
Boholst begged off from giving further statement yesterdays, saying he wanted to lie low and needs to recuperate from the “trauma” of getting amubshed and shot.
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