Although it is unlikely, Yoon could be exposed to a death penalty if it was found to be guilty of preparing the coup with the law of war last year.
South Korea’s accused former President Yoon Suk Yeol has accused of opening his criminal proceedings.
The repressed leader argued on Monday at the Seoul Central District Court that his explanation of war law was “no coup d’Etat” at the end of last year. If Yoon is found guilty of the uprising, he can be sentenced to life in prison or receives a death sentence.
Yoon was officially deleted from office at the beginning of this month after he was charged and suspended by the legislator because of his declaration on December 3.
The public prosecutor opened her case by arguing that Yoon lacked the legal reasons to explain war law and accused him of paralyzing state institutions such as parliament.
“The accused … made it impossible for the constitutional institutions to exercise their authority on the basis of an illegal explanation,” said the public prosecutor.
Yoon, who was the country’s chief prosecutor in front of the country’s president, laid out about 40 minutes to refute the allegations.
“War law is not a coup d’état,” said the former president. He added that he did not intend to paralyze the country, but that war law was necessary to draw attention to the actions of the majority opposition party.
He said the opposition made the government stony by charging more than 20 civil servants he saw as a dangerous threshold.
“This was a peaceful” embassy war law “to the nation … I knew that this law would end within half a day – one day,” said Yoon.
Although he had informed this intention to the then minister of the national defense of Kim Yong-Hyun, military officers who explained to the order seemed to have exceeded it because they are used to training under various guidelines for war law, Yoon said.
The declaration of war law, in which the need to eradicate “anti -state” elements, was lifted six hours later after the parliamentary employees had used barricades and fire extinguishers to ward off soldiers for special persons, who tried to enter the parliament, where the legislators voted for the rejection of war law.
The court will listen to witnesses from two military caps called by the public prosecutor, including an officer who claims that he was instructed by top commanders “to” pull out the legislators gathered in the National Assembly in order to raise war law “. Yoon denied this claim.
Experts say that Yoon’s criminal proceedings will probably be lengthy.
“The first judgment is likely to be submitted in August, but the case comprises around 70,000 pages and numerous witnesses. If you are considered necessary by the court, the procedure can be extended,” Lawyer Min Kyoung-SIC told the AFP news agency.
If Yoon is found guilty, he will be the third South Korean president who was found to be guilty – after two military leaders in connection with a coup from 1979.
While he could be sentenced to death, it is highly unlikely that an unofficial moratorium for executions has had an unofficial moratorium for executions since 1997.
