Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo and Local Police Clash: All-Out War Escalates

2023-06-23 05:29:47

Daegu city-local police all-out war
Mayor Hong “Daegu Police City Hall is prohibited from entering” in a Facebook post
Daegu police “Do you mean that the prosecution and the court are also accomplices?” counter statement

On the morning of the 23rd, the Daegu Police Agency seized and searched the Dongin government building in Daegu in connection with the prosecution of Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo for violating the Public Official Election Act, and left the city hall with the confiscated materials. yunhap news

As Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo protested once morest the police’s seizure and search of the Daegu City Hall, calling it a “retaliatory investigation,” the conflict between Daegu City and the local police office over the administrative execution of the Queer Culture Festival is escalating to an all-out war. Immediately following the search and seizure, Mayor Hong posted a post on his personal social network and announced that “Daegu Police Agency employees are prohibited from entering the city hall.” On this day, when the police raided the Daegu City Hall Dongin Office Public Information Office in connection with Mayor Hong’s accusation of violation of the Public Official Election Act, Mayor Hong posted on Facebook, “The Daegu Police Commissioner is regarding to leave. After the adjustment of the investigation authority of the police and the police, when we have the entire investigation authority, it seems that there is nothing visible now.” At the same time, he said, “With the support of a leftist group, you forcibly suppressed the execution of duties by legitimate Daegu city officials, and then you are even investigating retaliatory measures once morest public officials? If only an accusation comes in, do you search and confiscate with recklessness! If you exercise your right to investigate in that way, you are a gangster, not a police officer. Okay, let’s go to the end to see what happens.” Soon following, Mayor Hong posted on Facebook once more, “As of today, Daegu Police Agency employees are prohibited from entering Daegu City Hall. The head of the Daegu Police Agency seized and searched the city hall by compulsory investigation, saying that the city of Daegu, which had been cooperating with the investigation of the case, had received absurd accusations from a leftist group? This kind of thing seems to happen because power is concentrated in the police.” At the same time, he fiercely attacked the police, saying, “If you are an opposition party, you can even claim that the opposition is suppressed, but in the government of Yoon Seok-yeol, which advocates rule of law administration, the Daegu Police Commissioner’s tyranny of sham law enforcement and retaliatory investigation is truly regrettable.” The execution of duties by Daegu city officials, which Mayor Hong said was coercively suppressed by the police, refers to the work that the police blocked when the officials launched an administrative execution on the 17th, claiming that the organizing group did not obtain permission to occupy the road during the Daegu Queer Culture Festival on the 17th. The police confronted Daegu City and Jung-gu Office officials who were blocking the entry of event vehicles, saying that festivals that were legally reported for assembly must be guaranteed. When Mayor Hong dismissed the seizure and search as a “retaliation investigation,” the Daegu police protested this time. On this day, the Daegu Police Agency work council said, ‘Mayor Hong! Even if you hate the police, please respect the court’s decision.” They “ignore the court’s decision with the poor and unique interpretation of Mayor Hong Joon-pyo every day, regarding the legitimate and legitimate management of the queer festival assembly by the police, and now dismiss the warrant execution as a retaliatory investigation. Are the prosecution and the court involved in issuing the warrant also accomplices in the retaliatory investigation?” He added, “(This search and seizure) was issued by the police following the police applied for a warrant before the issue of the queer festival arose, and the court recognized the need for it. Following the attempt to dominate the police administration, are you trying to intervene in the judicial activities of the court?” A police official said in a phone call with, “We requested a search and seizure warrant from the prosecution on the 9th, and the warrant was issued by the court on the 16th. This was before the queer festival was held,” he dismissed claims of retaliation due to conflicts at the queer festival. Civil society in Daegu is also voicing criticism once morest Mayor Hong’s continued criticism of the police. Kang Keum-soo, secretary-general of the Daegu People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, said in a phone call with the , “It was at the end of February that we reported the incident, but it took four months for the search and seizure to take place. It makes no sense to protest once morest the long-overdue start of the compulsory investigation as an investigation in retaliation for the conflict at the queer festival.” Suh Chang-ho, a permanent activist at Solidarity for Human Rights Movement, also said, “Mayor Hong’s unreasonable confrontation with the police can only be seen as an act conscious of the Yongsan presidential office. It is bittersweet that the rights of the minority or the legitimate raising of issues by civic groups are buried in the power play of the powerful.” Previously, the Daegu Police Agency’s Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Investigation Department seized and searched Daegu City Hall’s Public Information Officer’s Office in connection with the case of Daegu City Mayor Hong Joon-pyo’s violation of the Public Official Election Act on the morning of the same day. A police official said, “We are conducting a search and seizure in connection with the violation of the Public Official Election Act by Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo, which was reported by a civic group. It is an ongoing investigation, so I cannot give you any specifics.” The Daegu People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy accused Mayor Hong and a public official in charge of YouTube in Daegu City for violating the Public Official Election Act in February. They argued that Mayor Hong violated the Public Official Election Act by continuously uploading videos promoting his image and achievements as the mayor of Daegu on his YouTube channel, ‘TV Hongko Cola’. The Public Official Election Act prohibits local government heads from publicizing their achievements on personal social network services. Reporter Kim Kyu-hyun [e-mail]
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