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Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:43 |
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MEXICO DC, 19.05.2010 (La Jornada / ProtestanteDigital.com Two Indians were arrested and await evangelical trial on charges of "attempted murder" for shooting a group of Catholics who harassed them and tried to cut the water supply of several houses of evangelicals. It happened in the place San Gregorio, the municipality of Huixtán, where clashes between indigenous traditionalist Catholics and Protestants has been happening in recent years. On 7 May, about two hundred wanted to cut the supply of drinking water to five houses of Protestants who refused to cooperate in the Catholic feast of the Holy Cross organized by the patronage of water. Detainees and Pedro Bautista Pedro Ara Ara Perez, father and son respectively, responded with gunfire before the group, resulting in nine people injured. They were arrested hours after the attack by settlers who turned them over to authorities after being identified by the victims as members of the group that attacked them.
Judge Isabel Ramos, the weekend gave the detention order against two detainees on the grounds that sufficient evidence existed.
This case shows that justice still works best depending on who you should apply the punishment. Hundreds of assault, coercion, kidnapping and murder remain unsolved evangelicals in the country
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