South Korean authorities at president’s residence to execute arrest warrant

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Seoul: South Korean investigators have entered the presidential compound of the country’s impeached leader Yoon Suk Yeol in a second attempt at arresting him over his short-lived martial law declaration.

In an operation that began before dawn on Wednesday, vehicles carrying law enforcement officials began arriving at Yoon’s hillside villa in Seoul, where he has been holed up for weeks.

Police officers stand in front of the gate of the presidential residence of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul, South Korea, in the early hours of Wednesday.Credit: AP

Investigators were foiled on January 3 from serving the first-ever arrest warrant issued against a sitting South Korean president after a standoff with hundreds of presidential security agents and military guards.

Some 6500 supporters of Yoon were gathered at the residence on Wednesday, and some ruling party MPs were forming a human chain to block the execution of the arrest warrant, Yonhap News Agency said.

Pro-Yoon protesters were singing and waving light sticks, according to a Reuters witness, while police buses were blocking roads near the main gate of the residence so other vehicles did not have access.

Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol shout slogans during a rally to oppose his impeachment near the Constitutional Court in Seoul on Tuesday.

Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol shout slogans during a rally to oppose his impeachment near the Constitutional Court in Seoul on Tuesday.Credit: AP

Yoon’s lawyer Yoon Kab-keun, who was carrying papers, could also be seen talking to investigating officials in black uniforms in front of Yoon’s compound, video footage showed.

Lawyers for Yoon, who was impeached by parliament on Dec. 14 and has been secluded in his official residence in Seoul, have said trying to arrest him was a politically motivated attempt to publicly humiliate the embattled president.

They also said Yoon believed the arrest warrant was illegal because it was issued by a court in the wrong jurisdiction, and the team set up to investigate him had no legal mandate to do so.

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