Four People in Their 20s and 30s Referred for Insulting Victims of the Itaewon Tragedy

The police have sent to prosecution three individuals in their 20s and one individual in their 30s who are accused of posting insulting comments about the Itaewon disaster victims on the internet.

[Asia Economy Reporter Oh Gyumin] The police have sent to prosecution three individuals in their 20s and one individual in their 30s on charges of posting insulting comments about the Itaewon disaster victims on the internet.

On the 22nd, the Cyber Crime Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced that from last week until the day before, they sent three people in their 20s to prosecution on charges of violating the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection (prohibition of distribution of illegal information, etc.). The Cyber Crime Investigation Unit of the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency also sent one person in their 30s to prosecution on the same charges.

According to the police, these individuals are accused of posting insulting comments about the victims in the chat rooms of online gaming sites since the 30th of last month.

The police apprehended them by tracking their Internet Protocol (IP) addresses after receiving reports from people who were in the same chat rooms at the time.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and other metropolitan and provincial police agencies are conducting pre-investigations on 20 posts insulting the victims, and it is known that investigations are underway on 8 of these cases.

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