VIDEO: They burned a live owl because they thought it was a "witch", activists demand that those responsible be punished

The bird was helpless before the youth attack (Video: Twitter @ tochtli84)

A video in which you can see two young people throwing a live owl in the middle of a bonfire indignant users of social networks and activistwho asked for an investigation at the federal prosecutor's office for the protection of the environment (Profepa) find and punish those responsible.

The video was shown through Facebook and Twitter accounts, and we observe in him one of the young people who are presumably in San Juan del Rio, Durango, holding the owl with outspread wings, then throw it into the fire, while the bird tries to escape but can not do it because he tied her to the legs.

"Here we are going to burn a bading witch, burn her to the cursed bitch," says one of them, and well video qIt was announced in the networks only lasts 18 seconds, the account administrators who propagate them said that it is even longer, but It is painful to see how the animal is consumed in the middle of the flames in the midst of the pain.

The video first appeared on a Facebook page called "San Juan Rio Dgo Hd", which is then replicated by several local users and on Twitter accounts.

This one it's not the first time that the people of Durango are committing this type of aggression against species of birds that they confuse with "witches". In 2014, Profepa opened an investigation against women who allegedly they burned an owl in the city of La Campanain the municipality of Pueblo Nuevo, because They thought I was a witch.

In one video that also circulated through social networks called "The owl that Durango residents think is a witch", have we heard several women at a kind of ceremony that repeatedly ask the bird "Who are you?" .

The recording shows the owl unable to move its wings and ends with the same question of women who they require the bird to tell them its name.

The news has also caused great indignation in social networks and the label has been created. #JusticiaparaLechuzaDurango to require the follow-up of the case before the competent authorities and to sanction in this way the persons responsible for having captured and burned it, even though the local legislation provides for fines and even jail sentences for the perpetrators of this type of acts.