éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsíTwo disused phone boxes are to be transformed into writing hubs as part of a creative community project.
éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsíAll this has culminated in a fringe movement that has become both more energised and extreme, spilling out from behind computer screens onto the streets.éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsí"Stop the Steal" signs have become a fixture at pro-Yoon rallies - co-opted from supporters of US President Donald Trump, whose own political career has been helped by a network of conservative YouTubers.
éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsíShortly after Yoon's arrest in January, enraged supporters stormed a courthouse in Seoul, armed with metal beams, assaulting police officers who stood in their way.éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsíLast month, an elderly man died after setting himself on fire near Seoul City Hall weeks earlier. A stack of fliers accusing opposition leaders of being pro-North Korean forces were found near him.éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsí"If they remain here, our country will become a communist nation,"
éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsí. "There is no future for this country, no future for the youth."éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsíEven conservatives have been surprised and divided by this new trend of violence.
éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsí"He has watched too many trashy YouTube videos," read one op-ed in Korea JoongAng Daily - one of many conservative news outlets that have become increasingly at odds with Yoon supporters. "A compulsive watcher of biased YouTube content can live in a fanatic world dominated by conspiracies."
éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsíFrom the outset Yoon embraced right-wing YouTubers, inviting some of them to his inauguration in 2022.éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsíA single lunch guest survived - local pastor Ian Wilkinson - after weeks of treatment in hospital.
éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsíOver six weeks, the jury in the Victorian Supreme Court has heard from more than 50 witnesses called by the prosecution, including Ms Patterson's estranged husband, Simon, and the surviving lunch guest, Ian.éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsíIt is now the defence's turn to call witnesses, and first up was Ms Patterson herself.
éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsíThe 50-year-old told the court that by 2023 she had felt for some months that her relationship with the wider Patterson family - Don and Gail in particular - had perhaps developed a bit more distance or space.éxicoeligeaunabogadoindígenaparalaSupremaCorteunsí"We saw each other less," she says.