A 26-year-old man accused of stealing a vehicle was burned in the main square of a small town in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, a country where mob justice cases run high every year. The Chiapas State Prosecutor’s Office announced the opening of an investigation into the murder of this man on Thursday in Santiago El Pinar, where an indigenous community lives.
Hundreds of lynchings in Mexico every year
The man’s body was found by authorities with severe burns, the prosecutor’s office said. This case comes a week after five young men, also accused of theft, spent several hours hanging naked from basketball hoops before being rescued in the town of Tsetsal de Huixtan, also in the state of Chiapas.
Mexico experiences hundreds of lynchings or extrajudicial execution attempts each year, including 42 murders and 279 attempts in 2021, according to the NGO Causa Común. According to experts, the phenomenon is due in part to the widespread perception of impunity in a country plagued by crime. .
Source: BFM TV
