Harry Roque claims the Netherlands booked flight to Vienna amid asylum issue

Former presidential spokesperson Atty. Harry Roque said authorities in the Netherlands booked him a flight to Vienna in Austria, adding that he was told that it was up to the latter’s government to give him protection.

Amid reports that he was arrested after the cancellation of his passport in connection with qualified human trafficking charges, Roque said he was disembarked from the plane, and his trip to Vienna didn’t push through.

In a video on Boldyak TV, he said that while Dutch doctors certified that he was fit to travel, his surgeons said that he was unfit to fly.

Roque, who applied for asylum in the Netherlands, said that Dutch authorities told him that it was up to the Austrian government to give him protection because it was the latter that gave him his visa.

Roque said that he had two surgeries before he was told that he should take up his protection request with Austria.

He said that he didn’t contest what the government of the Netherlands told him because he was confident that he could make his case for asylum anywhere in Europe.

GMA News Online is reaching out to the embassy of the Netherlands for comment and will publish it as soon as it is available. –NB, GMA Integrated News