CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga – A case has been filed yesterday before the Angeles City Prosecutors Office against a young man whom police earlier arrested for not standing while the national anthem was being played inside the movie house in Clark in Angeles City.
Bayle Einstein Gonzales, 20, reportedly refused to stand and instead ate popcorn even when he was told twice by Charge D’Affaires to Iraq Elmer Cato, who was standing at the back in the same cinema last Sunday.
This prompted the latter to inform police to arrest the man for violating RA 8491 or the “Flag and Heraldic Code of the Philippines.”
In an interview, Chief Supt. Amador V Corpus, Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) director said that Gonzales already appeared before the prosecutor’s office during inquest proceedings the other day. He has a recommended bail of P2,000. (Franco G. Regala)