TINAWAG ni Senator Leila De Lima kahapon ang gobyerno bilang “assassin state” na ginagamit aniya ang “mafia tactics” sa pananakot sa witnessess na tumatangging tumestigo laban sa kanya, kasabay nang pagdududa na ang insidente sa Bilibid na ikinamatay ng isang Chinese drug lord, ay “riot.”
“Absent any other available reliable information, I am not discounting the fact that this is another way of the government ‘persuading’ the Bilibid 19 to testify against me,” pahayag ni De Lima.
“I am not discounting the possibility that this so-called ‘riot’ is Malacañang’s way of sending its messages to prisoners who refuse to implicate me in the Bilbid drug trade as part of Aguirre’s and Malacañang’s teleserye drama projecting me as Bilibid drug queen,” dagdag ng senadora.