'Yoon Seok-yeol Support Wreath' Arson: 70s Suspect's Detention Hearing Today

On the morning of the 5th, a man set fire to a wreath supporting Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol placed in front of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul, and officials from the Supreme Prosecutors' Office extinguished the fire with fire extinguishers.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Seongpil Cho] The pretrial detention hearing for a man in his 70s who set fire to a wreath supporting Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol in front of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office will be held on the 7th at the Seoul Central District Court.

Choi Chang-hoon, the chief judge in charge of warrants at the Seoul Central District Court, will hold the pretrial detention hearing at 3 p.m. for Moon, who has been charged with arson of general property and for whom a detention warrant has been requested. Judge Choi will listen to both sides during the hearing and then consider the necessity of detention. The decision on whether to issue the detention warrant is expected to be announced later that afternoon.

Earlier, the Seocho Police Station in Seoul applied for Moon's detention warrant the previous day. Moon is suspected of pouring an inflammable substance on a wreath placed at the main gate of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and setting it on fire around 9:50 a.m. on the 5th. Although officials from the Supreme Prosecutors' Office immediately attempted to extinguish the fire, five wreaths were burned.

At the time of the arson, Moon also distributed dozens of documents advocating prosecutorial reform, claiming he had been harmed by past prosecutorial investigations. It is known that in April 2013, he self-immolated, suffering burns, stating that he had been unjustly imprisoned due to prosecutors.

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