The community mistakenly lynched a man they thought was a thief

A new case of intolerance has occurred in the city of Bogotáwhere a young man went lynched by the Suba town community after a woman confused him at a fire with the thief that he had just taken his mobile phone, despite the fact that the man was able to escape the scene after receiving several blows from neighbors and drivers who approached the scene, his motorcycle ended up incinerated in the middle of the road.

Victim of the facts, Juan Sebastian Torresspoke for the microphones of CityTV, the young man recounted the moments of anguish he had to go through after being confused by a woman who, according to him, had stolen her. The man claims that he was in front of one of the traffic lights in the area since it was red, at which time a woman approaches and hits him repeatedly, yelling at him to return his cell phone.

At that time, people did not help John Sebastian, quite the contrary, since a taxi driver who was in his vehicle decided to hit the young man several times with a machete, an act which was joined by other people on the spot so that he did not have no way out but to run; when he returned to where his motorbike had been set on fire by the community.

“The woman comes down and starts telling me the cell phone is there, all I do is start beeping and asking for help. The only thing I do is run, to try to protect my life, everyone hits me. When I got up, the motorcycle was all incinerated”, told the account of the assaulted man.

In addition to the injuries suffered, the young man claims to have lost his belongings during the attack, since while some attacked him, others took the opportunity to steal his casco, mobile there wallet with all your documents; John Sebastian He assures that he did not steal from anyone, and that now he does not know what to do since he depended on the motorcycle to do his work as a home worker.

“They took my helmet, they stole my mobile phone, my wallet, all my papers. They hit me with a machete, I have an injured arm and back,” he said. Juan Sebastian Torres who has already complained.

Juan Sebastián’s mother blamed the community for what happened to her son, this in addition to declaring that the woman was not the victim of theft but was acting to be able to take away the young biker’s belongings. “They could have killed my son, because they weren’t just the girl who came to steal, they used the community,” the woman said.

In another case of intolerance presented in the city of Bogotá, a 44-year-old man was murdered in the Carbonell neighborhood of the city of Bosawitnesses to what happened say he was at a bar in the area with friends, at which time one of them got involved in a fight with others inside the establishment, for which Raúl Guauque decided to intervene in defense of his partner, received a stab wound to the chest during the fight.

After receiving the stab wound, the man was transferred to the Bosa Health Services Unit, where he arrived without vital signs, while his alleged killer voluntarily surrendered to authorities, but was released because there was no warrant for his arrest. .