South Korea arrested 67 “vicious crime notice” posters, more than half of them were teenagers
Hangzhou Net Release time: 2023-08-09 06:59
Xinhua News Agency (Xinhua) – South Korean police said on the 8th that after a number of recent cases of wounding people with weapons, the police have arrested 67 people who posted on the Internet claiming that they would launch similar attacks. age of responsibility.
The South Korean National Police Agency said that from the evening of the 7th to the morning of the 8th, the police arrested two more “vicious crime notice” posters, bringing the total number of arrests to 67. As of 18:00 on the 7th, 34 of those arrested were teenagers in their teens, and some of them were under 14 and could not bear criminal responsibility.
One of the teenagers was arrested in Incheon City, west of Seoul, on the 6th. He previously claimed on the Internet that he would commit vicious crimes at a subway station; Attacked with a knife, then pretended to be innocent and reported this post to the government department, and was arrested by the police on the 5th.
The police asked the education department and relevant agencies to cooperate with it to prevent young people from participating in such crimes.
On July 21, a man in his 30s stabbed someone with a knife near Xinlin Station of the Seoul Metro, killing one and injuring three. On August 3, a man in his 20s in Seongnam City, Gyeonggi Province first drove a car and injured several pedestrians, then entered a shopping mall and attacked people with a murder weapon, killing one person and injuring 13 others. On August 4, a knife attack occurred in a high school in Daejeon City, and a teacher was injured.
South Korean Police Minister Yoon Hee-geun issued a statement on the 4th, announcing that the police launched a “special security operation” for the first time until “the public is no longer uneasy.” In the past few days, the police have deployed police forces in crowded places such as squares, subway stations, and department stores, and sent heavily armed special police officers to stand by.
Source: Xinhua News Agency Author: Editor: Zheng Haiyun
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2023-08-08 22:59:00
