‘Stomps, Kicks, And Pummels’ Accused Kidnapper Deadly Troops in Mexico

A lady was beaten to death by a crowd in Taxco, Mexico, on Thursday because it was believed she had killed a little daughter. After an 8-year-old child vanished on Wednesday, a crowd was assembled. The Associated Press said that her corpse was discovered early Thursday on a road outside the city.

According to the story, the security camera video seemed to show a lady and a man placing a bundle—possibly the girl’s body—into a cab. On Thursday, the crowd encircled the woman’s home and made threats to pull her outside. Following the woman’s transfer into the bed of a police pickup truck, the crowd pulled her outside and into the street, where “they stomped, kicked, and pummeled her until she lay, partly stripped and motionless.” The police watched this happen.

Subsequently, the police removed her and left the pavement marred by blood. One of the mob members said, “This is the result of the bad government we have.” She said, “This isn’t the first time people have done something, but this is the first time this kind of thing has happened.” She was alluding to the girl’s murder. She murmured, “We are tired.” “It was an eight-year-old girl this time.”

Mario Figueroa, the mayor of Taxco, expressed his sympathy with the locals’ indignation at the murder. Three individuals were beaten by the crowd, according to Figueroa. Although AP only saw the lady being beaten, footage from the site seemed to show that they had also been beaten. The two males were hospitalized, according to the office of state prosecutors. On their condition, there was no immediate information available.

Figueroa bemoaned in a statement that he was receiving no assistance from the state government for his tiny and outnumbered municipal police unit. “Unfortunately, we have not received any assistance or responses as of yet,” Figueroa said. In the historic silver-mining town, the centuries-old religious procession on Good Friday eve transpired as scheduled on Thursday night.

Crowds flocked to Taxco’s colonial streets to see men in hoods strolling while brandishing whips or bearing heavy bundles of thorns over their bare shoulders in a penitent gesture meant to mimic Jesus Christ’s agony on the cross. However, the violent outburst earlier in the day clouded the already mournful parade that brings thousands of people to the little village.

Numerous attendees wore little white mourning ribbons. Felipa Lagunas, a local elementary school teacher, remarked, “I never thought that we would experience a lynching in a touristic place like Taxco.” It seemed far away to me, far outside of society. It never occurred to me that on a day this wonderful, my community would go through this.

Despite the possibility that the violence would worsen, many said they had had enough. “We are aware that this would negatively impact the town, which depends heavily on tourists during Holy Week. Numerous individuals will no longer want to go, as stated by Andrea, the mob member. “We can’t keep letting them treat us like this; we depend on tourism for our livelihood.”