Yoon Suk Yeol, the ousted president of South Korea, is the subject of an arrest warrant. The police team that came to pick him up from his home clashed with the politician's security service.
A deposed president holed up in his residence and resisting arrest, hundreds of his supporters gathered in front, a tense face-to-face between security services: South Korea is experiencing a new episode of incredible chaos this Friday.
Dismissed on December 14, the president Yoon Suk Yeol is confined in his house in the heights of the chic Hannam district of Seoul.
Friday around 8:00 a.m. (Thursday 11:00 p.m. GMT), a team from the anti-corruption service which centralizes the investigation for “rebellion” against Mr. Yoon entered the presidential residence in an attempt to arrest the deposed president, who had previously ignored three subpoenas for questioning. Arriving aboard five cars, whose journey was followed live since dawn by South Korean television, this team was apparently blocked for a long time by a minibus parked across the entrance to M's house. Yoon. She finally managed to enter the residence, but still did not come out more than five hours later.
The president's team of lawyers arrived at the residence in the morning. One of them, Seok Dong-hyeon, wrote on Facebook that he was “convinced that they (investigators) will fail to execute the arrest warrant Today”. In fact, the investigators finally announced that they were suspending their arrest attempt, prevented from achieving their goals by the president's security.
“Regarding the execution of the arrest warrant today, it was determined to be materially impossible due to the continued impasse. Concerns for the safety of staff on site led to the decision to halt the execution,” the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) said in a statement.
Investigators have until Monday to execute the arrest warrant issued by a Seoul court against Mr. Yoon.
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