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Two alleged thieves were beaten after they attacked some stalls in the Plaza de la Tecnologíalocated in the Centro neighborhood, of the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s officeon Sunday, September 29.
According to the local merchants, there were two people who were stealing from a store on the ground floor of the square with more than 37 years of operating and selling technological products.
The accused, presumably of Venezuelan origin, were caught stealing a cell phone and a smartwatch while they pretended to be in the square to repair a mobile device.
They beat a thief inside the Plaza
The events were recorded in a video that is already beginning to circulate on social networks and was broadcast on the program C4 on Alerthosted by journalist Carlos Jiménez.
In the video you can see how one of the alleged thieves receives a blow to the head by one of the merchants. Subsequently, The discussion escalated when the offenders asked for their money back. and the mobile device they supposedly wanted to repair.
At that moment the thieveswho were surrounded by the tenants and the plaza’s security agents, They began to be physically attacked by the victims.
Even a man and a woman were caught in the middle of the beatings; However, the alleged offenders managed to escape.
This is how they lynched thieves in Plaza del Cetro and CdMx
Thief lynched outside Technology Plaza
The other thief was beaten outside the squarelocated on the Central Axis, where motorists and motorcyclists stopped to watch the fight.
The alleged thief, crying, asked to be left while desperately looking for his shoes that flew during the lynching.
According to the information revealed by journalist Carlos Jiménez, in the first instance the thieves indicated that they had not stolen anything, They later confessed to having taken the cell phone and smartwatch, but that they supposedly returned it.
What is vigilante justice?
The Royal Spanish Academyconsiders lynchings as actions that consist of executing , without trial, to a suspect or a prisoner riotously (action in which more than three individuals participate).
According to an article by the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) published in 2002, lynching is a phenomenon that has multiplied in recent years; however, its peak began between 1995 and 1996 when They rescued 26 people from being lynched, while 21 deaths were reported due to self-righteousness.
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