Police Launch Investigation Into 'Personal Belongings Search and Assault' as '2030' Generation Gathers Again

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The blockade protest in front of the vote-counting station at the Seoul Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium has continued for over a week. Meanwhile, the police have launched an investigation into allegations that some protesters searched the personal belongings of national handball team players.

Reporter Lee Se-hyeon has the story.

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Last night (June 12) at Seoul Olympic Park.

[Fraudulent election, re-election!]

From office workers who visited the site after work to families who came out holding their children's hands.

With the weekend approaching, the protest site was mainly filled with people in their 20s and 30s who stayed until late at night.

As the blockade protest in front of the vote-counting station has been ongoing for more than a week, the police announced that they have launched an investigation into the incident where the women's junior national handball team's personal belongings were searched without authorization.

Previously, on June 8, when the players visited the gymnasium to retrieve their training equipment, a controversy arose as some protesters allegedly forced them to undergo body searches and inspections of their personal belongings.

The police have identified one of the three individuals involved in the incident, a woman, and requested her appearance yesterday.

Furthermore, the police are also in the process of identifying three protesters suspected of assaulting and confining a journalist at the protest site.

Earlier yesterday afternoon, a press conference was held in front of the vote-counting station by conservative YouTuber Jeon Han-gil.

Jeon claimed to have found a ballot storage box that the court failed to secure during the on-site inspection of the Jamsil 7-dong No. 2 polling station on June 10.

[Jeon Han-gil/Conservative YouTuber: As you can see, this piece of evidence is the very original that appeared in the media and for which a request for evidence preservation was filed.]

Jeon's side plans to hand over the box to investigative agencies or the court to verify its authenticity.

The Seoul Eastern District Court also requested the Songpa-gu Election Commission yesterday to confirm facts regarding whether the ballot storage boxes were destroyed, information related to the waste disposal company, the date of disposal, and the current storage location if they were not destroyed.

(Video reporting: Lee Byeong-ju, Kim Han-gyeol | Video editing: Kim Jun-hee)
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