Man burned alive after being charged with theft in Mexico

The man’s body was found by authorities with severe burns, the prosecutor’s office said. This case comes a week following five young people, 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 attempted extrajudicial executions each year, including 42 murders and 279 attempts in 2021, according to the NGO Common Cause. According to experts, the phenomenon is partly due to the widespread perception of impunity in a country plagued by crime. (Belga)