Yoon Suk Yeol generated a major crisis in the country while trying to subvert the civil order and send the army to Parliament to prevent deputies from voting on the revocation of the martial law that had decreed hours before
Or ex-president on the corean He was arrested on Thursday (10) by the statement of martial law that he left the country in a scenario of political chaos and caused his impeachment, while investigated for accusations of insurrection. Yoon generated a major crisis in Trying to subvert the civil order on December 3: He sent the army to Parliament to try to prevent deputies from voting on the revocation of the martial law that had decreed hours earlier. In January, he became the first acting South Korean president to be arrested after several weeks of resistance to prison thanks to the protection of the presidential security body. He was released for procedural reasons in March while the trial was continued on accusations of insurrection.
Yoon was dismissed by Parliament and impeachment was confirmed in April by the Constitutional Court. After the decision, Yoon refused to attend the calls of the judicial investigators, who requested their detention to force him to cooperate with the court. A new arrest warrant was issued due to concerns that Yoon could “destroy evidence” in the case, said Nam Se-jin, judge of the Central District Court of Seoul. The former 64-year-old president appeared on Wednesday to a seven-hour hearing, which rejected all charges and was later taken to a detention center to await the court’s decision on his provisional arrest.
After issuing his term on Thursday morning, Yoon was taken to a lonely cell. Prosecutors prepare the formal accusations against him. “When Yoon is accused, he could remain detained for up to six months,” Yun Bok-Nam, president of the Advocate Organization for a democratic society, told AFP.
*With information from AFP
