Angry mobs burn a man to death in Mexico

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Angry mobs beat and burned a man alive, and the man was accused of trying to kidnap a minor in the central Mexican state of Puebla, local authorities announced in a statement.

"This is not justice, but barbarism," the municipality of Huacinango said in a statement. "The competent authorities have launched an investigation into what happened to determine the responsibilities."

And Daniel Picasso, 31, was beaten and burned Friday by a crowd of about two hundred people, in the Papatlazulco area, about 180 km from the capital, Mexico, according to the same source.

The municipality indicated that the police tried to save the man by placing him inside a car belonging to them, but the residents of the area forcibly took him to a sports stadium, where they beat him, sprayed gasoline on him and burned him while he was still alive.

The body was pulled out after the residents left the place.

The angry crowd gathered after accusations spread against Picasso on phone messaging groups that an alleged criminal was traveling in the city to kidnap minors, according to the statement.

The victim worked until March 2022 as an advisor to the Mexican House of Representatives, according to this institution, which denounced through social networks the crime.

This type of killing is not new in Mexico, and it usually takes place in remote areas that take a long time for the security forces to reach.

One of the most tragic cases in this context was an incident that also took place in the state of Puebla in 2019, in which seven men were beaten and burned alive.

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