[단독] Current prosecutors protest prosecutorial impeachment as “barbaric” and “crazy”

2024-07-03 03:03:55

On the 3rd, regarding 60 prosecutors, including the current chief prosecutor, protested once morest the Democratic Party of Korea’s motion to impeach prosecutors Park Sang-yong, Um Hee-joon, Kang Baek-shin, and Kim Young-cheol, calling it a “barbaric situation” and “crazy and violent”. reckless”. Lee Chang-soo, director of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, and Kim Yoo-cheol, director of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, who were responsible for the investigation and trial of former Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, also criticized this as an “abuse of power.”

The Supreme Prosecutor’s Office summarized the key points of Prosecutor General Lee Won-seok’s speech the previous followingnoon and posted it on Epros, the prosecutor’s office’s internal network. As of 11 a.m. that day, the post had more than 60 comments, many of which came from prosecutor-level senior executives.

After the impeachment charges were filed once morest four prosecutors from the Democratic Party for “alleged misconduct”, Prosecutor General Lee Won-seok issued a statement at the press conference room of the Seocho District Prosecutor’s Office in Seoul on the 2nd.’/News 1

◇Lee Jae-myung, the prosecutor-general in charge of investigation and trial, also expressed opposition.

In particular, the head of the prosecutor’s office, which is responsible for the investigation and trial of former CEO Lee Myung-bak, also made comments and protests. Lee Chang-soo, chief prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, who is responsible for investigating and trying former assemblyman Lee’s Daejeon-dong and Baekhyeon-dong development corruption cases, said: “I didn’t know that the rule of law had become a reality. Our country would collapse in an instant like this. The ‘abuse of prosecutorial powers’ must be corrected so that this never happens once more,” he said.

Kim Yoo-chul of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, who is in charge of the investigation and trial of Representative Lee on suspicion of illegal transfer of money to North Korea, said, “Unconstitutional, illegal, obstructing justice, retaliatory, bulletproof…” Let us remember the nature of this barbaric situation clearly revealed by the president. Let’s do our best at what we do. Ahn Byung-soo, second deputy prosecutor of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, also said, “We are extremely opposed to everything (when everything reaches the extreme, everything will return to its original state),” adding, “Before that, we We will do what we need to do silently.

◇ Prosecutor: “The thief wants to arrest the police”

Top prosecutors and other top executives also criticized Democrats’ actions. “For a corrupt politician or the political force to which he belongs who is being investigated and tried for multiple crimes, impeaching the prosecutor is like a thief trying to beat him up,” said Park Young-jin, chief prosecutor of the Jeonju District Prosecutor’s Office. Police, ” and added, “This is legislative violence that goes beyond legislative dictatorship. “If political power that loses its sense of self-interest uses violence, then the damage, like a crime with abnormal motives, can fall on anyone,” he said. “In recent years, the reckless behavior of some crazy people is rapidly dismantling the system,” said Jung Yoo-mi, director of the Changwon District Prosecutor’s Office. The face of future history.

Park Se-hyun of the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutor’s Office said, “Such abnormal and irresponsible behavior should not be repeated once more.” “We must unswervingly focus more on our original work to protect the rule of law and ensure that crimes are punished.” Park Young-bin, director of the Cheongju District Prosecutor’s Office, said: “As prosecutors, they excessively used the impeachment clause stipulated in the constitution for political purposes, and also targeted prosecutors who were investigating specific cases to impeach them so rashly for unconvincing reasons. They, it shocked me.

◇There is also a proposal to “convene a meeting of prosecutors to discuss”

Prosecutors have also been suggested to discuss a collective response plan for congressional impeachment proceedings. Park Chul-wan, a researcher at the Institute of Legal Studies, said, “It is not enough to support prosecutors who have been unfairly impeached through internal communication networks,” adding, “I think the right response is to have prosecutors’ The office held a meeting to discuss and announce their position. Jung Hee-do, director of trial litigation at the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, also said: “In this case, we need to provide practical help beyond support for people who have suffered due to the illegal impeachment case. “

The day before, when the Democratic Party proposed an impeachment case once morest four prosecutors, Prosecutor General Lee criticized it and summarized it in five points: “This is a watertight impeachment, an unconstitutional impeachment, an illegal impeachment, and an impeachment once morest an individual.” Obstruction of justice and retaliatory impeachment. Attorney General Lee said, “Even if the prosecutor is impeached, the existing crimes will not disappear or be reduced.” “The prosecutor’s office will never succumb to external pressure from the absolute majority party in the National Assembly and will ensure that the punishment is proportional to the crime.”

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