‘U.S. Solders on The Armored Car’ Refused to Show up in the Prosecutor’s Office

The two American soldiers, who killed two middle school girls on the armored car accident, were planned to show up in the Euijungboo branch office of the Seoul district attorney on the 8th; however, they refused to appear on the prosecutor’s office because of worries about physical threat and violation of portrait right.

The deputy district attorney of Euijungboo branch office, Park, Yoon-Hwan, said, “A US Army interpreter said that there was a physical threat by the demonstrators in front of the branch office, and there also was a worry to violate portrait right by the reporters.”

The US Army also asked that since there were worries like those, it would be better for the Korean Prosecute to investigate the driver, a sergeant Mark Walker and the senior passenger, a sergeant Fernando Nino inside the US Army base.

The Prosecute originally planned to investigate the vice and virtue of the accident through those two American soldiers, and decide weather to ask to give up the jurisdiction right or not after studying the investigation; however, asking to give up the jurisdiction right, which is due on the 11th, will not be so easy because of the refusal to appear by the US Army.

The 10 some officers belonged to ‘the People’s Countermeasure Committee against the Middle School Girls Killing by the US Army Armored Car’ were rallied in front of the Euijungboo branch office and claimed, “Those two American soldiers should be prosecuted according to the Korean Law because it was clear that the US Army was responsible for the accident.”

The two soldiers belonged to the Second Division of the US Army were charged with killing of Korean middle school girls Shin, Hyo-Soon and Sim, Mi-Sun, who were walking along the local road in Hyochon-Ri, Kwangjuk-Myun, Yangju-Kun, Kyunggi-Do, while driving an armored car.

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