Threatening tweet warns Jim Paredes vs twitting Binay | Inquirer Entertainment

Threatening tweet warns Jim Paredes vs twitting Binay

/ 09:45 PM October 24, 2014

Jim Paredes.

Jim Paredes.

MANILA, Philippines–Musician and activist Jim Paredes has sought the help of the Philippine National Police after receiving a death threat via Twitter from someone who wanted him to stop taking online swipes at Vice President Jejomar Binay.

Paredes went to the office of the PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group (ACG) in Camp Crame Thursday night to report the menacing tweet from a certain Rex Vincent Tecson.

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Tecson’s post read: “Ikaw Mr. @Jimparedes aalamin namin ang bahay mo dyan sa Manila. Salvage ang abot mo sa oras mag-mention ka pa uli kay @VPJojoBinay.” (You, Mr. Paredes, we will look for your house there in Manila. You will be ‘salvaged’ [killed] the moment you mention VP Jojo Binay again.)

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ACG intelligence head Chief Insp. Jay Guillermo on Friday said his office was still “verifying the Twitter account involved and who owns it.”

According to its profile, the account handle @RexVTecson was created in October 2012, with the owner supposedly based in Regensburg, Germany.

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The account had over 9,300 tweets as of Friday but the threatening message had been deleted.

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Paredes, 63, a member of the popular musical trio Apo Hiking Society, is also a producer, writer, educator and photographer. He is currently a board member of Kaya Natin!, a group that promotes good governance. Julie M. Aurelio

 

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