The Police of South Korea This Friday, an operation was launched to stop the deposed president Yoon Suk Yeolafter Seoul’s anti-corruption agency ordered investigators to comply with the arrest warrant approved this week. However, the officers came across the military unit that guards the former president in his residence, that he exercised endurance y blocked their progress.
About 20 officials from the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials were seen loading boxes into several vehicles before leaving for the former president’s residence, where a strong police operationafter popular rallies in recent days, which with more than 11,000 people sought to avoid the execution of the order.
“The execution of the arrest warrant against President Yoon Suk Yeol has begun”they confirmed from the organization although they later specified that The agents were “blocked inside by a military unit.”
Yoon posee presidential immunity facing criminal prosecution, but not in cases of insurrectionwhose sentences can reach up to life sentence o to death penalty.
Their lawyers have denounced that the execution of the order is “invalid” e “illegal”given that the anti-corruption agency lacks the legal authority to investigate rebellion cases like this.
Likewise, they accused the Court handling the case of ignoring a law that establishes that sites potentially linked to military secrets – such as Yoon’s office – cannot be searched without the consent of the person in charge and assured that the report presented by the Prosecutor’s Office on what happened within the framework of the implementation of the Law is “a one-sided story that does not correspond to objective circumstances or common sense”.
The attempted arrest of Yoon occurs within the framework of the investigation that accuses him of insurrection y abuse of powerafter declaring the Martial Law on December 3, and especially after he missed multiple calls to appear before Justice and that will block raids in its offices in the country’s capital.
On December 14, in the midst of the political crisis unleashed by his decision, which he had to reverse within a few hours, the then president was deposed by vote of the National Assembly.
In his place the prime minister took over Han Duck Soowho was removed from office a few days later, for refusing to fill three key vacancies in it Constitutional Courtnecessary to ratify the removal of the former president. In his replacement, the former deputy prime minister and minister of finance, Choi Sang Mok.
The day before, in a message addressed to his followers gathered outside his home, Yoon promised fight “to the end” against “anti-state forces”.
“Due to internal and external forces infringing on its sovereignty and the activities of anti-state groups, South Korea is now in danger“, he said before thanking them for their support and insisting that “a free democracy, where each citizen is the owner, not the state or a party, will prevail”.
(With information from AP and AFP)
