Chun Doo-hwan 518 ‘Judgment Day’ helicopter shooting … Today’s first judgment sentence

Entry 2020.11.30 07:10

“A cheeky liar” to a helicopter shooting witness
The ‘libel of the lion’ is established only when false facts are proven
It appears that the court will decide today whether or not to fire a helicopter.

Former President Chun Doo-hwan (89), accused of defaming lions against witnesses to the May 18 helicopter shooting, will be sentenced to the first trial on May 30. This trial is more than a defamation case against individuals, since that the state agency judges once again whether or not there was a military helicopter fire against its own people during the Democratization Movement of May 18.

Kim Jung-hoon, exclusive judge of Gwangju District 8 Penal District, will hold Chun’s first trial at 2 p.m. today at the Gwangju District Court No. 201 Supreme Criminal Court. In a memoir published in 2017, Chun was accused of defaming and accusing Father Jobio, who testified that he witnessed a helicopter fired by the military during the May 18 period, as “ an unscrupulous liar with no color to speak. girlfriend ”.

The legal criteria for defamation of a lion is imprisonment for not more than two years, imprisonment, or a fine of not more than 5 million won, and the prosecution previously requested Mr. Chun for a prison term of one year and six. months.

The crime of defamation can be established even if the facts are stated, but the crime of defamation of lion must be recognized as a false fact and defamation of the deceased. Therefore, the main question of the trial was whether there was a helicopter fire in Gwangju during the period of May 18.

The prosecution and the grieving family of Father Cho have already ruled that the situation of the helicopter shooting is presumed to be on the 10th floor of the Jeonil Building, which was the tallest in Gwangju, by the National Institute of Scientific Research. Based on the confirmed points, the position that the ‘5 · 18 helicopter shot’ is not a controversy that needs to be re-identified.

During the trial, more than 20 direct witnesses stood in the courtroom and presented military records supporting the helicopter shooting situation, such as the ammunition consumption situation in the lesson book to analyze the Gwangju unrest situation.

However, from the start of the trial, Chun said that if there had been a helicopter shooting in the center of Gwangju city over the ‘helicopter shooting’ since the start of the trial, there should be many more witnesses and evidence, such as bushings on the roads and streams of Gwangjucheon, but not enough objective evidence. It has never been done.

Jeon, who is known to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, went to court in April and denied the accusation, saying, “As far as I know, there are no firings from a helicopter.”