The editorial charged that the police indiscriminately fired tear liquid at demonstrators when they tried to march to Chongwadae in demand of the probe into the truth about the ferry Sewol disaster, thus wounding them.

Demonstrators said that the police endangered the people's life without any legal ground, it said.

The police's suppression is not only an illegal act but a grave encroachment on the freedom and rights of the people, it noted.

The April 16 Family Consultative Council filed a suit against the police over its suppression, it said. It demanded the "constitutional court" make a correct judgment.