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By The SUN
Was that President Rodrigo Duterte accompanied by his North
Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un going inside St Joseph
Many of the churchgoers, most of them Filipinos, did a
double take when two men who resembled the two leaders showed up for the 1pm
mass and went straight to the front pew.
One of them, zumba dance leader Jade Sanchez, was among
those initially fooled, but she then realized that the men were mere
look-alikes because there were no security people around. Instead, a lone
Western-looking man reportedly followed them around to take pictures.
“At saka hindi naman binanggit ang pangalan nila sa misa,”
she said.
Pictures she shared showed the men doing Duterte’s signature
clenched fist salute when they entered the church’s main hall.
Afterwards, they gamely posed for pictures with some
churchgoers.
Two Filipino community leaders at the church were, however,
not amused.
“Hindi po ba bawal yun? Nanggulo sila sa misa?”, the two said in a chance encounter in Admiralty afterwards. “Hindi na nila nirespeto ang simbahan.”
Sanchez said that although several women scrambled to have
their pictures taken with the impostors after mass, they already knew by then
that the whole thing was a prank.
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| A close-up photo taken in World-Wide shows the impostors do not really resemble the two leaders. |
A day earlier, the two were also spotted going around
Central, and even included a visit to WorldWide Plaza
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| Lining up to get a bite in the alleys (photo by Vincent Yao) |
