No Prosecution for National Assembly Security Guard Who Knocked Down Grandmother Lee Yong-su

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[Asia Economy Reporter Hwang Seoyul] The case in which former Japanese military ‘comfort woman’ victim Lee Yong-soo (94) fell due to intervention by National Assembly security guards was dismissed according to her wishes.

On the 28th, the Yeongdeungpo Police Station in Seoul announced that it had decided not to prosecute the case earlier this month in which former Japanese military comfort woman victim Lee Yong-soo was injured by security guards of the National Assembly.

Grandmother Lee was waiting at Sarangjae in the National Assembly to meet Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, who visited Korea last August, when she fell from her wheelchair due to intervention by security guards affiliated with the National Assembly Secretariat and was injured.

On the 22nd, Grandmother Lee filed a police complaint against an unidentified security guard for assault, injury, and professional negligence causing injury. Subsequently, the police identified the security guard who caused her to fall as Mr. A through closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage.

However, the investigation was closed without prosecution after Grandmother Lee expressed that she did not wish for Mr. A to be punished. Among the charges, assault and professional negligence causing injury are ‘offenses that cannot be prosecuted without the victim’s consent,’ so these charges were closed due to ‘lack of prosecutorial rights,’ and the injury charge was dismissed considering the minor extent of the injury.

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