The president's security blocked the actions of law enforcement officers.
The security of the president of South Korea and the military prevented the execution of the arrest warrant for Yun Seok-yul, so the Chief Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) suspended arrest. The standoff lasted five hours.
Reuters reports this.
CIO representatives arrived at the gates of the presidential residence and entered, where they encountered more than 200 guards and military personnel who formed several layers of human chains to block the CIO and police. Therefore, the latter did not reach Yun Seok-yul.
More than a thousand protesters supporting Yun Seok-yul also gathered near the residence. They chanted that the arrest warrant for the president was illegal and called for the CIO to be arrested.
The arrest warrant for Yun, issued by a court after he ignored multiple summonses to appear for questioning, is valid until 6 January.
What Came Before
A South Korean court has issued an arrest warrant for the ousted president. South Korean investigators are seeking an arrest warrant for Yun Seok-yul for briefly imposing martial law on December 3. The warrant was issued after Yoon Seok-yeol was investigated for multiple counts of sedition and treason, and ignored three summonses for questioning.
Yoon Seok-yeol's lawyers argue that investigators do not have the authority to arrest him because declaring martial law is a constitutional power of the president.
Yoon Seok-yeol has low approval ratings in the country, in part due to rising food and housing prices, labor unrest, and a sharp drop in the birth rate.
The president's reputation has also been tarnished by a hidden camera video of First Lady Kim Keon-hee allegedly accepting a $2 Dior bag as a gift 200.
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