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On October 3, the police again announced the policy of tough control over vehicle demonstrations by some conservative groups, which were announced on the opening day of the festival.
At the regular press conference held on the morning of the 28th, Jang Ha-yeon, head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, said: “It is unacceptable if you threaten the safety of the people like on Liberation Day (the assembly ) “. He expressed his willingness to respond vigorously to the large-scale assembly announced on the opening day.
Commissioner Jang said: “We believe that both offline assembly and vehicle assembly can be done at the same time (day one).
Turning to some pointing out that it is illegal to ban even vehicle demonstrations with a relatively small chance of spreading the coronavirus, Director Jang said: “By Supreme Court precedent (vehicle demonstrations) are subject to reports such as the assembly general “, the forbidden assembly, of course, should be blocked. On the 25th, the Chief Police Commissioner, Kim Chang-ryong, announced that he would take steps to suspend or cancel the licenses of participants in the event of illegal vehicle demonstrations on opening day.
Commissioner Jang said, “The reasons for license suspension and cancellation are set out in the Road Traffic Law.” Under current law, if a driver fails to comply with the legitimate instructions of the traffic police three or more times, he is imposed a penalty of 40 points, which is the reason for the suspension of the license. If the vehicles participating in the demonstration congregate in a place where assembly is prohibited during the opening day, the police will order the dissolution, but if they do not respond, they will charge a penalty point and suspend the license.
In addition, 100 demerit points are imposed if it is included in the “general traffic obstruction”, which interrupts traffic by damaging roads or installing obstacles. If the driver is arrested, the license is revoked.
Commissioner Jang said: “It is difficult to predict the scale of the vehicle demonstration for the first day, but we know that there are many public relations cases on social media, etc.,” he said. “At the last Liberation Day rally (reporting the rally), we have 100 people and we think about what really happened.” He said.
The police plan to mobilize mobile police forces other than the Seoul Police Agency in case the meeting is forced. Hygiene equipment is also being prepared, such as 10,000 face shields (face masks) for quarantine for use by the police officers on site.
Meanwhile, police said a total of 65 people were investigated in connection with the demonstration in downtown Seoul on the last Liberation Day. Of them, 30 were arrested as current criminals on the day of Liberation Day. After investigating 10 of these, the police sent them to the prosecution. Although they were not arrested that day, 35 people suspected of actively participating in the assembly are also under investigation, including the organizer.
