Reporting without contrasting and disseminating any type of message or content on social networks has consequences. This happened in La Línea de la Concepción, in Cádiz, where a rumor that spread like wildfire and was picked up by some local media, that a man lurking in the municipality was trying to kidnap children, could have had dramatic consequences. A group of people tried to lynch him and he was injured when he was identified by a group of people on Wednesday. His image had flooded the networks with the warning that he was a kidnapper. The police averted a tragedy and after taking him to a health center, he was subjected to a psychiatric examination which, as the national police confirmed to ABC, concluded that he was suffering from a disorder and he was admitted to the hospital’s psychiatric unit. It all started when this man, of Italian nationality, approached a young girl on the beach and told her that she was very pretty. Then he wandered into a school and from there the hoax that he was a child kidnapper went viral. Before the lynching, he was arrested and released because he had not committed any crime. The National Police opened an investigation to arrest the perpetrators of the attacks against this person. Videos of the attempted lynching also went viral. Police warn of danger of hoaxes. In a press release sent this Thursday morning, the National Police explained that no one has filed a complaint for attempted kidnapping and that there are no direct witnesses. events. “The only thing that could be verified with the testimony of a mother is an alleged compliment that this person would have given to a minor.” over time, they emerge and are nourished by real facts “which are distorted and reproduced with published information about similar events.”
Neighbors of La Línea de la Concepción attempt to lynch man accused online of trying to kidnap children
RELATED ARTICLES