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Vigilante Justice Goes Viral In Peru As Residents Take Matters Into Their Own Hands
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 18:23
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A Facebook campaign to dish out vigilante justice in Peru has gone viral – after hundreds of people started posting pictures and videos of themselves catching and punishing petty criminals.
More and more fed-up Peruvians are taking the law into their own hands and recording their often humiliating acts of retribution on their cameras or mobile phones.
The 'Catch Your Thief' movement took off after one neighbourhood decided to stop calling the police after a crime, warning they would 'lynch' the culprits instead.
Social media users quickly began posting their own home-made footage showing alleged thieves and pickpockets receiving their comeuppance, often at the hands of a baying mob of revenge-seekers.
Punishments range from being stripped naked and whipped in public and being forced to perform tough military exercises to even being force-fed raw chili peppers.
One video shows a woman undressed and being walked through a busy street, with a banner around her neck reading 'I'm a thief' …. http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/09/vigilante-justice-goes-viral-in-peru-as.html
