Sinking of the Sinking of the MV Sewol: anger of families supported by thousands of South Koreans

A year and three days after the 304 dead from the ferry sinking Sinking of the MV Sewol, hundreds of protesters clashed with police in Seoul.

Around 3000 people tried to force their way through barricades erected by police to join a group of fifty bereaved families who since Thursday were a sit-in the residence of the South Korean president.

These families have commemorated their dead Thursday shared between pain and anger at the authorities they accuse of indifference.

Accessing one of their essential requirements, the South Korean President Park Geun-Hye, however, had seized the occasion of the first anniversary of the tragedy to announce that the ship 6825 tons would be bailed out "as soon as possible."

The ferry rests 40 meters of water. Only 295 bodies were recovered by rescuers who stopped the research in November.