A public official from the state of Puebla, in Mexico, died last Friday after a mob of at least 200 people burned him alive. The man was mistaken for a child thief, according to rumors that had spread on WhatsApp and other social networks.
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The events occurred exactly in the community of Papatlazolco, municipality of Huauchinango, as far as Daniel Picazo, a 31-year-old lawyer who had collaborated in the Chamber of Deputies, had arrived, according to the Mexican newspaper ‘El Universal’.
The rumor of WhatsApp
According to the authorities, on Friday night the news was spread through several WhatsApp groups that there was an alleged criminal in the town who had come there to kidnap minors.
Other rumors even pointed out that Picazo had already tried to kidnap a little boy that night and he was prowling the area in a van.
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The messages spread on networks called for immediate action against the alleged kidnapper of minors who was in the town.
🚨#Terrible || The young Daniel Picazo was a tourist in #Huauchinango; they confuse him with robachicos and burn him alive
😱 He had a fondness for traveling and he did that in Huachinango, #pueblawhen villagers lynched him and burned him alive by falsely pointing him out as robachicos. pic.twitter.com/ivjLg8OAKv
– Valle De Lerma daily (@ValleDeLerma_) June 13, 2022
The rumor generated the anger of the villagers, who held and severely beat the man. The police tried to rescue him several times but neighbors prevented him insisting that he was a kidnapper of minors.
And when the officers tried to shelter him inside a patrol, residents of that community took him out again and took him by force to the sports fields, where They beat him, poured gasoline on him and set him on fire while he was still alive.
The truck in which Picazo was traveling was also burned. Agents from the state Public Security Secretariat (SSP) entered and removed the body after the residents left the place.
Picazo had worked until last March in the Chamber of Deputies, mainly with legislators from the National Action Party of Mexico.
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His family demands justice
The identity of the official was later confirmed by his family, who criticized the way in which he was killed by the community and called for justice from the authorities.
“Finding out how they took your life makes me feel the greatest revulsion towards people who unfairly did it without knowing that you were a professionallover of travel and life, with a bright future, fly very high my Dany, I trust that God will do justice to all those people who cut your wings… just for being at the wrong time and place, “wrote his sister on social networks.
The authorities in the area, where Picazo was originally from, are already investigating what happened. For now, it is unknown if there are people captured or identified as responsible for the death of the official.
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“Justice by one’s own hand is not justice, but barbarism. The competent authorities are already investigating what happened in order to determine responsibilities,” the Huauchinango municipal government said in a statement.
The deputies and the deputies of the LXV Legislature regret the sensitive death of the lawyer:
Daniel Picazo
Who until March 2022 served as advisor in this Chamber.
We join the sorrow that overwhelms family and friends, wishing them early resignation. pic.twitter.com/YLzHMtGTLj
– Chamber of Deputies (@Mx_Diputados) June 12, 2022
These types of crimes are not new in Mexico, and are recorded in remote locations, where state security forces take time to arrive.
One of the most dramatic cases occurred in 2019 also in Puebla, when seven men were beaten and burned to death.
That year 43 people died and 173 had been injured in lynchings, according to a report by the National Human Rights Commission.
INTERNATIONAL WRITING
*With AFP
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