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The special version of the Itaewon disaster resummoned Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Commissioner Kim Gwang-ho, the highest-ranking police officer, as a suspect.
As the arrest warrants for two people, including Lee Im-jae, former chief of the Yongsan Police Station, who were previously in charge of the field, were dismissed, controversy over the investigation seems inevitable.
This is reporter Bae Jun-woo.
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Special Investigation Headquarters of the police, which is investigating the Itaewon disaster, summoned Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Commissioner Kim Kwang-ho again after four days on the morning of the 6th.
Commissioner Kim is the highest-ranking police officer arrested in relation to the Itaewon disaster, and is suspected of causing loss of life due to negligent response.
[Kim Kwang-ho/Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Chief: I will say that I will faithfully conduct the investigation without hiding or assisting with today's investigation.]
The special edition focuses on investigating Commissioner Kim's awareness of the disaster, the time he received the report, and the circumstances in which the riot police were not deployed. are going to do
Two people who were previously in charge of the scene, Lee Im-jae, former chief of the Yongsan Police Station, and Song Byeong-ju, former head of the Yongsan Police Station 112 Situation Department, escaped arrest.
The special version argued that they did not take appropriate relief measures and increased human casualties, but the court judged that it was difficult to recognize the reason for arrest and that the right to defense was necessary.
[Lee Im-jae/Former Yongsan Police Station Chief (Yesterday): I will work as diligently as possible to find out the cause of the accident or the truth.]
Park Seong-min, former head of the Seoul Metropolitan Government's intelligence department, and Kim Jin-ho, former information manager of Yongsan-seo, who are suspected of ordering to delete an information report analyzing the dangers of the Itaewon safety accident after the disaster, were arrested and imprisoned for fear of destroying evidence.
Half of the four people who applied for an arrest warrant for the special edition were arrested, but there are concerns that the investigation may be weakened as the failure to secure new recruits for front-line managers puts the brakes on the upper-level investigation.