A lynched man in Xochimilco was a tourist promoter and no cases of rape were reported.

The Attorney General of Mexico City, Ernestina Godoy, said that the man who He was lynched last week in San Francisco in Tlalnepantla, of the town hall Xochimilco, He was not a rapist, but a tourist promoter of Guerrero, his murder was therefore caused by a rumor that is still the subject of an investigation.

On the night of February 7, more than a thousand residents of the community They attacked the 28-year-old man after accusing him of raping a minor, the Public Security Secretariat (SSC) police went to the area to Save the man but the villagers also attacked them.

At around 23:00 and after being beaten for two hours, the soldiers managed to leave the premises to take the detainee to the prosecutor's office. but he died on the way. At least 23 other officers were injured while he was trying to save the man and several patrols were damaged.

At a press conference, the head of the capital said that a week after the events No one has officially filed an indictment, complaint or evidence of badual abuse against a woman or a minor that day.

He added that the young man attacked by the crowd I did not have a criminal record and I was pbading in Mexico City, where he came to work to promote a hotel.

"He's already identified, his family has come, is a person who comes from the state of Guerrero, they really had very little time to come back from the United States, I was promoting for a hotel, I did not have an antecedent", mentioned Godoy.

He added that They will pursue investigations to determine who initiated the badault towards the victim and beat him.They will therefore examine the images of the video surveillance cameras located at the intersection of Capulín and the San Francisco Road, in the Colonia San Francisco Tlalnepantla, where the attack took place.

"It is very unfortunate that there is a rumor and this lynching occurs we can not tolerate it here in Mexico City, "he said.

Another lynching in Xochimilco

The subject of 30 years was accused of showing his penis to a woman I was walking in the street.

The Excelsior newspaper mentioned that I lived in the area and I had addiction problems; while the ContraRéplica journalist, Carlos Jiménez, called Wilfred Cruz.