“If you go to Korea, I will send Egyptians to the underworld”...Why is a man in his 30s not indicted for making public threats?

Written a threatening message along with details of the purchase of a weapon...claimed, "I wrote it out of anger."
Prosecutors "The characteristics of the office worker community must be taken into account... There is insufficient evidence to reach the victims."

A man who posted a message threatening to kill foreigners on an Internet community was acquitted.

The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office decided not to indict Mr. A, a man in his 30s who was sent on charges of public intimidation in December last year.

In October of last year, Mr. A was accused of posting a post on an anonymous community bulletin board for office workers with the title, "If you enter Korea, all Egyptians will be sent to the underworld," along with details of the purchase of a Japanese sword and a baseball bat.

Person A is known to have deleted the post a few hours after it was written.

Mr. A completely denied the charges.

He claimed, "At the time of writing, I was extorted by a local person for 10 million won worth of money and my goods were confiscated at customs while I was on a business trip to Egypt, so I wrote this out of a sense of injustice. It was just an accidental expression of emotion, and I had no plans to commit an actual crime."

The prosecution accepted Mr. A’s claim.

Considering that the specific date and place of the crime were not specified, it was judged insufficient to acknowledge that there was intent to threaten.

The prosecution explained, "In the case of the site where the article was posted, unrefined expressions are prevalent hidden behind anonymity," and "The crime of intimidation is established only when the other party recognizes the meaning by notifying the person of harm."

He added, "Considering that the site is a space for office workers in Korea, there is insufficient evidence to believe that the suspect's posts reached the target Egyptians."

Seo Bong-ha, a lawyer at Daeryun Law Firm, who represented Mr. A, said, "We sincerely explained that if the actor's words and actions are nothing more than a simple emotional swear word or a temporary display of anger, the intent to threaten cannot be acknowledged. Since the public intimidation crime was implemented last March, we were able to obtain a good result by also proving that the perception of illegality was weak."

#Accident #Foreigner #Murder #Non-indictment

Park Seok-ho (haitai2000@ikbc.co.kr)

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