In South Korea, President Yoon Suk Yeol refuses his arrest: “a national shame”

In South Korea, President Yoon Suk Yeol refuses his arrest: “a national shame”
In South Korea, President Yoon Suk Yeol refuses his arrest: “a national shame”

In Seoul, the series that President Yoon Suk Yeol started by proclaiming martial law on December 3 continues. Parliament voted to impeach him eleven days later, and investigations into the “insurrection” began. On December 31, at the request of the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO), the Seoul West District Court issued an arrest warrant for the suspended president. Friday, January 3, the execution of the warrant ended in failure after five hours of standoff between investigators and the president's bodyguards.

The newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun describes in detail the tense, even chaotic atmosphere near the presidential residence, on the heights of the chic Hannam district in Seoul. “From 6 a.m. on Friday, 3,000 police officers and 135 buses [étaient] deployed for the safety of demonstrators from both camps, namely opponents and supporters of the president. […] It was around 7 a.m. when the vehicles carrying the 30 IOC investigators approached the president's residence. They were quickly joined by 120 police officers from the special investigation commission.”

“We were able to witness clashes between

-

-

PREV Accident between two boats, one carrying Marine Le Pen to Mayotte, the president of the RN is unhurt
NEXT the robber in custody for new escape plans