Mob burns house of village thug

Cthippo · 2 Jan 2007

Reuters said:

MADRID - A mob of 400 people burned the house and cars of a Spanish villager known as the "Bald One" on New Year's Eve, claiming revenge for seven years of his threats and violence against locals, a newspaper reported Monday.

Javier Bernui often went into bars and supermarkets in the central village of Villaconejos, 35 miles from Madrid, with a pistol or a knife, mayor Lope Benavente de Blas told Spanish daily El Pais.

"He would take what he wanted and never paid anything. He had been in prison," said Benavente de Blas. "Bernui didn't hesitate to use violence against the residents in bars, drove his car wherever he liked and did whatever he felt like."

On December 23, Bernui entered a bar, thumping the bar and pushing other customers aside. A man told Bernui enough was enough and gave him a beating.

Bernui responded by returning a week later with a number of friends to destroy the bar.

The attack was the last straw for some 200 of Villaconejos's 3,400 residents, who went to Bernui's house later that day. Civil Guard police contained the crowd and arrested Bernui when he fired two shots, one at the ground and another into the air.

But 400 villagers returned the next day, setting fire to Bernui's home, garage, two cars, a van, two quad bikes and a motorbike and blocking the path of firefighters.

Three elderly people and a pregnant woman were at Bernui's home but were evacuated by police and no one was hurt.

"It was all of us. It was the people," declared the mayor, who said he alerted police when he heard villagers were going to approach Bernui's house.

A police spokesman confirmed Bernui's arrest and said an investigation into the burning of his property had begun. He declined to say whether other arrests had been made.
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I can't condone this sort of thing, but I suppose it is justice.

overdosedelusion · 2 Jan 2007

in a way it could be seen as justice, he sounds like he deserved punishment, but certainly not burning down his house when he could well have been inside it, and along with innocent eldery people in their also.. Eye for an Eye i suppose.

Bogomip · 2 Jan 2007

he couldnt have been inside it, he had been arrested the day before - though there were people inside it didnt specify whether it was burning before or after they were out.

overdosedelusion · 2 Jan 2007

ah i figured the mob didnt know of his arrest and had planned to burn him alive and perhaps eat him afterwards with some tatters

specofdust · 3 Jan 2007

Good for them. Was a shame they didn't just kill the man, but burning every vehicle he owned and his house wasn't a bad wee punishment. Hopefully more will follow.

splashtech · 3 Jan 2007

I can't condone that sort of thing, but lets just say I wouldnt try to stop them had I been the police.

herbs · 4 Jan 2007

Im surprise the guy wasn't taken to a spot in the country side and well you can guess the rest. If that was his behaviour , then the punishment was moral justifable.

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Cthippo Can't mod my way out of a paper bag

overdosedelusion I mostly come at night, mostly..

Bogomip ... Yo Momma

overdosedelusion I mostly come at night, mostly..

specofdust Banned

splashtech What's a Dremel?

herbs Nobody but us chickens

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