Two men in their 20s accused of assaulting a police officer during a protest at the Songpa District ballot-counting site (Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium) in Seoul are at a crossroads over whether they will be detained.
According to legal sources on the 1st, the Seoul Eastern District Court will hold a pre-arrest interrogation (substantive warrant review) for two men in their 20s, identified as A and B, who are accused of injuring a public official in the course of special duties, starting at 2:30 p.m. on the 2nd.
A and B are accused of assaulting a police officer on the 5th of last month, when a ballot box from Jamsil 7-dong No. 2 polling station in Songpa District for the 9th Nationwide Local Elections (June 3 local elections) was transferred to the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium.
They reportedly blocked a police officer who was coming out after completing the transfer work and assaulted the officer while claiming that an election commission employee had disguised themself as police.
Police also applied a charge of violating the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection to a woman in her 20s who filmed the scene at the time and shared it on social media (SNS), recently summoning her as a suspect for questioning.