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Sun, August 14, 2022 | 00:02
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Seongju residents vow stronger protest
경찰, 성주 폭력사태 본격 수사…외부인 개입 확인
Posted : 2016-07-17 16:48
Updated : 2016-07-18 11:14
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Police start investigation of violence against prime minister

By Lee Kyung-min

Residents in Seongju County vowed Sunday to extend their organized struggle against the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery there, shrugging off a police investigation of some residents who used violence during a rally, Friday.

Some 200 members from the public and private sectors in the county in North Gyeongsang Province set up an Anti-THAAD Struggle Committee, Saturday, to stage a long-term, systematic fight against the deployment of the anti-missile unit.

The committee members said they would continue rallies until the government withdraws the plan to deploy THAAD there. They also plan to wage a legal battle against the government for the "flawed" process of the site decision, which they claim was made without consulting the residents.

"Some 2,000 residents will visit Seoul Thursday to stage a rally at Gwanghwamun Square and the National Assembly in Yeouido," the committee said in a statement.

About 1,000 residents also held a candlelit vigil for two hours in protest near the county office. The office said the vigil will take place every night until the deployment decision is withdrawn.

Police in dilemma

Police said they are investigating some residents who used violence during a rally at the country's office on Friday when they threw raw eggs and bottles of water at Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn and Defense Minister Han Min-koo.

THAAD safety unlikely to be assured
2016-07-17 16:53  |  National

Hwang and Han, who visited the county to reassure residents that THAAD's radar does not pose health or environmental threats, were met with jeers and pelted with eggs. They were stuck in a van for six-and-a-half hours surrounded by enraged protestors.

Police are reviewing video footages taken from the scene after setting up a special investigation team under the Gyeongbuk Provincial Police Agency.

"Throwing such objects is an act of violence that may be subject to punishment," a police official said.

But concerns also rise that punishment of residents may further worsen the already soured public sentiment against the government.

Some residents denounced police for attacking them first to get Hwang and Han on the van.

"We were standing close to the van to talk with the ministers, and some officers choked us to make way for them to get to the van," a resident said. "We will collect evidence to prove police brutality."

Some government officials claimed the residents should be accused of confining the ministers, but National Police Agency Commissioner General Kang Sin-myeong said it was not confinement because the ministers only could not move, but were able to communicate with people outside the vehicle.

In similar cases, those using violence faced jail terms.

In June 1991, former Prime Minister Jeong Won-sik was covered with eggs and flour thrown by students of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies who protested his hard-line stance against movements of student activists and the Korean Teachers and Education Workers' Union.

The incident occurred shortly before he was scheduled to be sworn in as prime minister under the Kim Young-sam administration.

Out of a total of 18 students indicted, 10 were sentenced to prison terms of between two and three-and-a-half years, while the remaining eight received suspended sentences.




경찰, 성주 폭력사태 본격 수사…외부인 개입 확인

경찰은 지난 15일 경북 성주 사드 설명회에서 발생한 폭력사태에 대한 수사에 본격적으로 나섰다.

경찰은 폭력사태에 일부 외부세력이 개입한 것을 확인했다.

경찰은 사드 설명회 때 성주군민이 아닌 외부 인사가 집회에서 구체적으로 어떤 행동을 했는지, 불법행위를 했는지를 집중적으로 수사하고 있다.

경찰 관계자는 17일 '외부세력이 당일 집회에 참석한 정황이 있어 어디까지 개입했는지 조사하고 있다'고 말했다.

'성주 사드배치 저지 투쟁위원회' 이재복 공동위원장은 이날 연합뉴스 통화에서 '폭력사태에는 외부인이 개입한 것도 한 원인'이라며 '외부인은 오지 말라고 했지만 소위 시위꾼이 붙어 순수한 농민의 군중심리를 이용한 점이 있다'고 했다.

그러면서 '언론도 성주군민이 아닌 말씨가 다른 외부인과 인터뷰를 삼가달라'고 요청했다.

정부의 한 고위 관계자도 '(폭력사태 당일) 외부세력이 많이 있는 것 같았다'면서 '그런 세력들이 있으니까 (총리와 주민 간) 실질적인 대화가 이뤄지지 않았던 것같다'고 밝혔다.

외부인이 특정 시민단체 등에 소속돼 있을 경우 파장은 더욱 커질 가능성이 있다.

이런 점을 의식한 듯 성주지역 여러 단체로 구성한 '성주 사드배치 저지 투쟁위원회'는 평화 시위를 이어가야 한다는 점을 강조하고 나섰다.

김항곤 성주군수도 그동안 '외부세력이 들어와서는 안 된다'고 밝힌 바 있다.

경북지방경찰청은 성주 사드 설명회에서 발생한 폭력사태와 관련해 증거 분석에 착수했다.

김우락 경북경찰청 수사과장을 반장으로 한 25명의 전담반은 15일 현장에서 채증한 동영상을 모아 불법행위를 판독하고 있다.

경찰은 달걀이나 물병을 던지는 등 폭력 행위에 가담한 주민을 소환해 사실관계를 확인한 뒤 공무집행방해 등 혐의로 처벌할 예정이다.

다만 채증자료가 많아 판독에 다소 시간이 걸릴 것으로 내다봤다.

트랙터로 총리가 탄 미니버스 출입문을 막은 주민은 일반교통방해 혐의로 입건할 방침이다.

그러나 주민은 이번 사태와 관련해 '경찰이나 경호팀이 주민을 폭행한 점도 수사해야 한다'고 주장한다.

경찰은 15일 오후 6시 넘어 황 총리가 탄 차가 군청에서 성산포대로 가는 과정에서 주민 A씨가 탄 차와 충돌한 사고도 조사 중이다.

A씨는 성산포대 인근 도로에서 총리가 탄 차를 발견하고 자신의 차로 가로막았다.

이어 총리가 탄 차가 A씨 차를 피해 가는 상황에서 차량 충돌이 일어났다.

경찰은 양측 진술을 토대로 사실관계를 확인하고 있다.

경찰 관계자는 '현재는 채증자료를 분석하며 불법행위 등을 조사하고 있다'고 말했다.

황 총리는 지난 15일 오후 5시 40분께 미니버스에서 내려 다른 차량으로 이동하는 과정에서 양복 상의가 벗겨지면서 수첩을 분실했다가 곧바로 회수하기도 했다. (연합뉴스)
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