The motorcade of deposed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeo upon his arrival at the Seoul detention center in Uiwang (South Korea), January 18, 2025. SOO-HYEON KIM / REUTERS The standoff continues between the South’s conservative president -Korean, Yoon Suk Yeol, and the justice system of his country which is prosecuting him for having declared martial law on December 3, 2024. After forty-eight hours of initial police custody, prosecutors from the Office for the Investigation of Corruption of Senior Personalities (CIO) obtained, on Sunday January 19, a warrant for the arrest of the leader. The Seoul court justified it by a “risk of destruction of evidence”. Investigators have twenty additional days to question him. The IOC is expected to transfer the investigation to the prosecutor’s office after ten days. The latter should indict him before the expiration of the twenty-day period. When the warrant was announced, supporters of the president threw garbage and chairs at the police officers who were protecting access to the court. Some managed to enter the building and broke windows. High tensions Continued detention is a new setback for Mr. Yoon, who had chosen to defend his case during the pleadings on this mandate, organized on the afternoon of January 18. He wanted to “explain the legitimacy of the imposition of martial law and restore his tarnished reputation,” explained his lawyer Yoon Gap Keun. You have 78.05% of this article left to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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Publish date : 2025-01-19 06:27:57
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