Another Incident Amid Crowded Fireworks Festival... Teenage Girls Targeted

 
A man in his 50s wearing a location-tracking electronic device (electronic anklet) has been caught by the police for secretly filming women's bodies at the Seoul World Fireworks Festival site.

Seoul Yeongdeungpo Police Station announced today (the 7th) that it has booked and is investigating a man in his 50s, surnamed A, on charges of violating the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes (filming using cameras, etc.).

A is suspected of secretly filming the bodies of two teenage girls with his smartphone around 4:40 PM on the 5th at Yeouido Hangang Park, where the Seoul World Fireworks Festival was taking place.

Police dispatched after receiving a report from a citizen at the scene arrested A in the act.

At the time of his arrest, A was wearing an electronic anklet.

A is reported to have denied the charges during police questioning.

The police applied for an arrest warrant for A, but the prosecution rejected it.

The police plan to investigate whether A committed additional crimes through smartphone forensics and other methods.

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