After the failed attempt to capture him last Friday
South Korean investigators are awaiting the issuance of a new arrest warrant for Yoon Suk Yeol today, having failed to execute the first one – which expired yesterday – due to the large deployment of soldiers and security members to protect the deposed president.
In the meantime, Yoon remains holed up in his residence in Seoul, apparently not at all willing to answer the judges’ questions about his brief imposition of martial law in the country.
The first arrest warrant, issued on December 31, expired at midnight yesterday (4pm in Italy). Last Friday, investigators from the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) entered his residence together with around 80 police officers but clashed with around 200 soldiers and agents of the Presidential Security Service (PSS) and retreated – to empty handed – after six hours of tense face to face.
Meanwhile. the Democratic Party, the main opposition force, announced a complaint against the current president Choi Sang-mok for “failure to fulfill his duties”, after having asked him in vain to order the PSS not to resist the arrest.
