SEOUL (Reuters) -Authorities had been en route on Friday to execute an arrest warrant for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Yonhap information company reported, as a crowd of protesters confronted off with police exterior his residence and vowed to dam any try.
Yoon is below legal investigation for his short-lived martial legislation try on Dec. 3. An arrest could be unprecedented for an incumbent South Korean president.
Yonhap reported that officers from the Corruption Investigation Workplace for Excessive-ranking Officers (CIO), which is main a joint workforce of investigators that embrace the police and prosecutors, had left their headquarters to execute the warrant.
Broadcaster YTN reported that about 2,800 police had been mobilised in preparation for executing the warrant.
It was unclear precisely how police would make the arrest and whether or not the presidential safety service, which has blocked entry by investigators with a search warrant to Yoon’s workplace and official residence, would attempt to cease it.
About 100 protesters had been gathered within the pre-dawn hours close to his residence, amid native media experiences that investigating authorities would quickly attempt to execute an arrest warrant that was authorised on Tuesday after Yoon refused summons to seem.
“We have to block them with our lives,” one was heard saying to others. A couple of dozen protesters tried to dam a gaggle of law enforcement officials on the entrance to a pedestrian overpass.
