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Hidalgo: Angry Mob Threatens Lynching; Torches 2 Homes
 Google Translate. For a map, click here.We're seeing about a lynching a month in Mexico now, and this is the farthest north to date and the most serious criminal threatened so far. The rest have been petty criminals, such as thieves. Police were forced to rescue eight individuals including two children following an attempted lynching of a criminal suspect's family in Hidalgo, say Mexican press accounts. After learning of the rape and murder of a 13 year old girl, about 200 people from the town of Casa Grande went to the home of Agustin Muñoz Camacho, after a brief protest at the mayor's office, threatened harm to the residents there, then torched two buildings. Police rescued eight people total at the location to protect them from the angered mob. The suspect in the crime, Camacho, was placed in preventative detention for 40 days,,the maximum allowable. This legal maneuver, usually reserved for narco-criminals and terrorists, is colloquially known as "rooting", and is a means legal authorities have of holding a suspects until a suspect is cleared or charged with a crime. "Rooting" can only be ordered by a judge. Posted by: badanov 2010-09-04 |
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