Opposition party calls prosecutor’s Daejang-dong suicide attempt ‘state violence through parliamentary inquiry’

[Financial News] The People Power Party (PPP) on the 17th condemned the parliamentary Investigation of State Administration into alleged politically motivated fabricated indictments by prosecutors under the Yoon Suk Yeol administration as "state violence." The party referred to a prosecutor who investigated the Daejang-dong development scandal and reportedly wrote that "the only way to prove my innocence is to kill myself" before attempting to take his own life.
Song Eon-seok, floor leader of the PPP, convened a party strategy meeting at the National Assembly that day and argued, "A so-called Investigation of State Administration, which is in fact state violence, is driving people to their deaths." He went on, "The Democratic Party of Korea is labeling the investigation and indictment of President Lee Jae Myung as state violence and is pushing legislation to punish prosecutors as perpetrators of state violence, but the real state violence is the Investigation of State Administration that the Democratic Party is carrying out."
Song said, "The Investigation of State Administration has long since degenerated from a fact-finding inquiry into a kangaroo court filled with one-sided torment and personal humiliation." He asked, "Are they claiming that the mountain of evidence and testimony was all manufactured through fabrication and coercion, and that even the judges in the first and second trials, as well as the Supreme Court justices handling the third trial, manipulated their rulings?"
He continued, "If they still insist it was a fabricated indictment, the only way to remedy President Lee Jae Myung’s alleged injustice is to reopen the trial." He added, "They can restart the trial, present the so-called fabricated evidence, and obtain a not-guilty verdict. Saying they will use the bizarre method of dropping the indictment instead of going through trial is, in the end, a confession that this was not a fabricated case."
Yoo Sang-bum, senior deputy floor leader of the PPP, commented on the Daejang-dong prosecutor’s suicide attempt, saying, "It sounds like the scream of the rule of law in the Republic of Korea, which is being hacked to pieces by those in power." He argued, "Even though five trials involving President Lee Jae Myung all came to a halt as soon as he took office, they are now pushing ahead with an unlawful Investigation of State Administration to cancel the indictments themselves, treating prosecutors like criminals."
Yoo went on, "Jung Chung-rae, the party leader, says he will define the investigation and indictment of President Lee Jae Myung as state violence and push, as a party platform, a bill to abolish the statute of limitations on state violence." He countered, "No matter how much they use the prosecutors in charge as sacrificial lambs, drag them to a political guillotine, and rewrite the law at will with their overwhelming power, the truth will not change."
haeram@fnnews.com Lee Haeram Reporter