The head of deposed South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s security service, whose team prevented his arrest by investigators a week ago, resigned Friday, January 10, the head of state’s office announced Acting Choi Sang-mok.
On January 3, Yoon Suk-yeol’s bodyguards had formed a human chain to block access to prosecutors from the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) and police officers, who came to seize the South Korean president at his residence in Seoul, where he has been holed up for years. weeks.
Park Chong-jun, head of the Presidential Security Service (PSS), submitted his resignation on Friday morning, January 10. while taking part in a police interrogation », Said a PSS official. This was then accepted by Acting President Choi Sang-moksaid the latter’s office.
The police and investigators are preparing, for their part, to try again to arrest Yoon Suk-yeol thanks to a new arrest warrant obtained on January 7. The IOC said it was preparing for it “ carefully “, and the police organized a preparation meeting for this purpose this Friday, according to the Yonhap agency.
« Under no circumstances should there be physical clashes or bloodshed » in the event of a new arrest attemptcalled Park Chong-jun on Friday, facing the press.
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