A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco brutally beat a woman they suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, just hours before the city's Holy Week procession
A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco on Thursday brutally beat a woman they suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, just hours before the city’s famous Holy Week procession. On the eve of Good Friday, men walk through the colonial streets of Taxco wearing hoods, whipping themselves or carrying heavy bundles of thorns in penitence. That and other Holy Week processions date back centuries in the old silver-mining town.
Video from the scene suggested they had also been beaten, though The Associated Press witnessed only the beating of the woman. In a statement issued soon after the event, Figueroa complained he did not get any help from the state government for his small, outnumbered municipal police force. “Unfortunately, up to now we have not received any help or answers,” Figueroa said. Mob attacks in rural Mexico are shockingly common.
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