SEOUL: South Korea’s air traffic authorities will ban drones from flying around the Constitutional Court in Seoul from Thursday ahead of the ruling on the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The measure will take effect from Thursday to Wednesday next week, according to a notice to airmen issued on the transport ministry’s aeronautical information system on Wednesday.
The court is widely expected to rule on Yoon’s impeachment in the coming days though it has yet to announce the date.
Police earlier announced in a statement it had asked the ministry to set up a temporary ban on drones around the court and adjacent areas spanning 1.85km until the end of this month.
Police are expected to be out in force and subway stations and nearby schools are set to be closed on the day of the ruling that will decide Yoon’s political future over his short-lived imposition of martial law on December 3.
On Sunday, a day after Yoon returned home, thousands of Yoon supporters gathered around the residence to protest the impeachment, surrounded by beefed-up police security.
South Korea bans drones around top court ahead of Yoon impeachment ruling
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South Korea bans drones around top court ahead of Yoon impeachment ruling
- The measure will take effect from Thursday to Wednesday next week, according to a notice to airmen
- The court is widely expected to rule on Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment in the coming days
Germany’s Merz urges ‘peaceful coexistence’ a year after deadly market attack
- The market attack happened during campaigning for legislative elections — one of several carried out by migrants that fed into a fierce debate about immigration and security in Germany
MAGDEBURG, Germany: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Saturday called for “peaceful coexistence” as the country marked the first anniversary of a deadly car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in eastern Germany.
Merz addressed a church ceremony in the city of Magdeburg, where the December 20, 2024, attack killed six and wounded more than 300 others.
“May we all find, today in this commemoration, comfort and peaceful coexistence, especially as Christmas approaches,” he told those gathered at the Protestant Johanniskirche (St. John’s Church), near the site of the attack.
Germany was still “a country where we show unconditional solidarity — especially when injustice prevails — standing shoulder to shoulder wherever violence erupts,” he added.
While the market reopened on November 20, guarded by armed police and protected by concrete barricades, it remained closed on Saturday out of respect to the victims of last year’s attack.
Saudi man Taleb Jawad Al-Abdulmohsen, 51, is currently on trial for the attack. He has admitted to plowing a rented SUV through the crowd in an attack prosecutors say was inspired by a mix of personal grievances, far-right and anti-Islam views.
Merz’s speech came eight months before regional elections, with the far-right AfD riding high in opinion polls in Saxony-Anhalt state, of which Magdeburg is the capital.
The market attack happened during campaigning for legislative elections — one of several carried out by migrants that fed into a fierce debate about immigration and security in Germany.
On December 13, German police said they had arrested five men suspected of planning a similar vehicle attack on a Christmas market in the southern state of Bavaria.
Police and prosecutors said they had detained an Egyptian, three Moroccans and a Syrian over the alleged plot.
