The political instability in Seoul continues as information arises that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested in a second try by the police authorities, six weeks after his short-lived try to impose martial regulation and 10 days after a primary failed arrest try.
Sky News reported:
“A motorcade of black SUVs was seen leaving the gates of his hillside residence the place he had been holed up for weeks behind barbed wire and a small military of private safety.
Mr Yoon mentioned the “rule of regulation has utterly collapsed” in a video message recorded earlier than he was escorted to the headquarters of an anti-corruption company. He mentioned he was complying with the detention warrant to stop clashes between police and the presidential safety service.”
Yoon’s legal professionals tried but once more to maintain investigators from executing the arrest warrant, saying the president would ‘voluntarily seem for questioning’.
“Police had been attempting to entry the president’s official workplace to detain him however had grow to be engaged in a standoff with Mr. Yoon’s safety service.”
Finally, tons of of officers entered the grounds of the Palace utilizing ladders to climb over obstacles, as police reportedly deployed 3,200 officers to execute the arrest warrant.
“One one that collapsed amid the standoff has been transported away from the scene by the fireplace division, native media mentioned.
The Corruption Investigation Workplace for Excessive-Rating Officers and police are collectively investigating whether or not Mr. Yoon’s martial regulation declaration on 3 December amounted to an tried rise up.”
Earlier than arresting the impeached President, South Korean investigators first arrested his appearing chief of presidential safety, Kim Sung-hoon, for blocking their preliminary try to arrest Mr. Yoon earlier this month.
“Mr. Yoon’s presidential safety service prevented dozens of investigators from arresting him after a standoff lasted practically six hours on 3 January.”
Yoon declared martial regulation and deployed troops across the Nationwide Meeting at first of December.
The failed try lasted solely hours earlier than politicians breached the blockade and voted to carry the measure.
This was adopted by his presidential powers being suspended by a vote to question him on 14 December, accusing him of rise up.
BREAKING: IMPEACHED SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT YOON DETAINED ON INSURRECTION CHARGES
After hours of negotiations and heightened tensions, investigators have formally detained impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on expenses of main an rebellion linked to his transient… https://t.co/h6FJaOkjwk pic.twitter.com/rE2s8K6CVs
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 15, 2025
For his half, President Yoon described his look for questioning as a ‘voluntary’ determination taken with the target of stopping violence between police and his Presidential guard.
Yonhap Information Company by way of Sputnik:
“As a way to cease undesirable bloodshed, I made the choice to seem within the prosecutor’s workplace regardless of the illegality of those actions,” Yoon acknowledged.
He defined that investigators had tried to breach the guarded space of his residence utilizing ‘firefighter gear’, prompting his determination to cooperate.”
The impeached president vowed to uphold the Structure whereas additionally rejecting ‘the validity of the investigative course of’.
“‘My consent to take part in that unlawful and invalid course of doesn’t represent its acceptance’, he mentioned, framing his actions as a step to stop violence.”
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