Men Who Assaulted Police at Vote Counting Center Over "Election Commission Disguised as Police" Referred to Prosecution

Charged with Injuring Police Officers While Obstructing Official Duties

A group of protesters who assaulted police officers at the vote counting center protest site in Olympic Park, Songpa-gu, Seoul, have been referred to the prosecution.

The Songpa Police Station in Seoul announced on July 8 that three men—two in their twenties, identified as A and B, and one in his forties, identified as C—were referred without detention on charges of causing injury while obstructing official duties.

Members of the National Assembly's Special Committee on National Assembly Control Investigation visited the vote counting center inside Olympic Park in Songpa-gu, Seoul, on the 2nd, while a protester blocking the entrance was being detained by the police. Photo by the National Assembly Press Photographers Association

According to the police, on June 5, when the ballot boxes from Jamsil 7-dong were being transported to the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium vote counting center, A and the others allegedly assaulted police officers near the venue by grabbing and pulling both arms of the officers.

At the time, A and the others reportedly assaulted the officers while claiming that an election commission staff member had disguised himself as a police officer as the officers were leaving after completing the transport operation. Previously, on June 29, the police had requested arrest warrants for A and B, who were more heavily involved in the incident, but the court dismissed the request, stating there was no concern about destruction of evidence.

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