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After a stabbing incident occurred last summer, a series of murder notices were posted online.
Thirty-two people were detained and handed over to trial amid the government’s strict response policy.
The government also decided to claim damages from them for wasting public power.
This is reporter Park Sol-nip’s report.
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A stabbing incident committed by 33-year-old Cho Seon on the streets of Sillim Station in July last year.
Afterwards, a message saying he would kill 20 women at the same location was posted online along with a photo of the purchase of a weapon.
Citizens were anxious due to concerns about copycat crimes.
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<조선 씨 따라하려고 하셨던 겁니까.>
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The prosecution investigated 189 people who posted murder warnings online, and detained 32 people and sent them to trial.
However, a man in his 20s who posted a notice of a murder at Sillim Station was sentenced to eight months in prison and two years of probation in the first trial.
People who predicted murder not only at Sillim Station but also in Bupyeong Rodeo Street and Yongsan were sentenced to probation one after another in the first trial.
Prosecutors announced that if they received a light punishment, such as probation, they would actively argue for social unrest and the spread of copycat crimes in the appeal trial to obtain a prison sentence.
The government decided not only to punish criminals for murder, but also to actively seek compensation for the waste of public power.
In the case of the murder suspect at Sillim Station, about 700 police officers were deployed until the arrest, and 43 million won was spent, including allowances and vehicle fuel costs, and in relation to the article that bombs were planted at five airports, including Jeju Airport, 3,200 won were spent due to the mobilization of about 570 police officers and riot squad members. It even cost 10,000 won.
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″Because the deployment of large-scale police forces results in a waste of public power… We are also actively filing claims for damages in order to seek compensation equivalent to blood tax.”
Prosecutors said that there are cases where it is difficult to punish acts of premonition of murder under the current law alone, and that they will do their best to revise the law to create a new crime of public intimidation.
This is Park Sol-ip from MBC News.
Video Editing: Minji Kim
2024-01-21 11:07:24
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