The Philippine police filed a complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security detail over an alleged assault, prompting her to claim she is being persecuted and that her relations with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

The Philippine National Police on Wednesday said it has filed a formal complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte and several other people. The complaints allege direct assault, disobedience, and grave coercion during an incident at the lower chamber of congress and a government hospital,

The Philippine police has filed complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her aides for alleged assault and coercion during a recent incident in Congress.

Philippine authorities handed a subpoena to Vice President Sara Duterte’s office, inviting her to answer investigators’ questions after she publicly threatened to have the president assassinated if she were killed in an unspecified plot herself.