Police Conduct Search and Seizure at Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Over Alleged Concealment of School Violence Involving Deceased Yangcheon-gu High School Student

Police investigating allegations that a school concealed school violence related to a high school student who jumped to his death last year in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, have conducted a search and seizure of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education and the school in question.

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The Yangcheon Police Station in Seoul announced that from 8 a.m. on the 5th, they carried out a search and seizure of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education and a high school in Yangcheon-gu, securing mobile phones of teachers related to the School Violence Countermeasure Committee (Hakpokwi) and education office officials.

Last month on the 20th, the police sent four 18-year-old male students from the school to prosecution without detention on charges of joint assault, and three other male students on charges of joint coercion. They are accused of beating a classmate victim, A, in November last year and threatening him by saying "Live quietly." A was found dead after jumping from his residence the day after the assault.

At the request of A's parents, the school held a Hakpokwi meeting in February, but at that time concluded that it was not school violence due to "insufficient evidence." A's bereaved family filed a complaint with the police accusing the teachers in charge of the Hakpokwi and others of obstructing official duties by deception, believing they concealed the incident. The police plan to verify whether there was an attempt to conceal school violence based on the mobile phones and other items secured during the search and seizure.

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