Source: Yonhap News
The National Police Agency’s Special Investigation Headquarters said the October 29 disaster was caused by the collective negligence of several suspects, and that they constitute legal logic by defining them as ‘co-perpetrators’.
An official from the special department said, “From the beginning of the investigation, we are investigating in accordance with the law of co-principal for negligence,” and said, “We are looking at the officers of the field agency who have been primarily responsible. for security management as far as being co-principal.”
The side of the special issue said, “It is not easy to establish legal logic that such a result occurred due to the negligence of one person. “The purpose was explained.
As for the possibility of predicting an accident, he added, “I believe it is foreseeable that an accident with at least an injury could occur if a large crowd of more than 100,000 people gathered.”
However, the special issue said, “People with minor negligence in the course of work can be recognized as co-principals, so we have to be careful in the investigation,” he added.
In order to prove this legal logic, it was confirmed that the special issue reviews a precedent where 16 people involved in the Seongsu Bridge collapse were recognized as co-principal offenders, such as work-related negligence and manslaughter, and found guilty by the Supreme Court.
On the other hand, the Special Investigation Unit said about asking the National Forensic Service to carry out a drug test on the leftover food on the site, “It was only to resolve the suspicion raised on SNS immediately after the disaster for the person who ate the candy cane to vomit’, and to investigate the drug charges of the victims. It’s not meant to be,” he explained.
The special version also explained that it was because there was deemed to be a problem with the measures before and after prosecuting Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Commissioner Kim Kwang-ho.
While the special edition called Song Mo, the former head of the Yongsan Police Station Situation Office, whose warrant was previously denied, this morning and continues a supplementary investigation, additional investigations will also be conducted on suspects from other agencies , including the former Yongsan police station. main Lee Im-jae.
