translated from Spanish: Up to 5 years in prison for those robbing passers-by aboard a motorcycle in CDMX

Mexico.- Those who come to commit the crime of theft against passers-by in any of its modalities using a motleta, either to perpetrate the wrongdoing or flee the scene, could receive a sentence of six months up to five years in prison, this in case a recent initiative is approved in the palace of San Lázaro.The above is part of a proposal made by the member of the Citizen Movement party , Humberto Ramón Jarero, who puts on the table adding article 376 Quinquies to the Penal Code with the aim of determining as aggravating in the crime of theft the use of motticicleta, as well as a penalty for it. The MP refers that his proposal would attend to an illicit that has grown during recent times in various parts of the country: theft with motorcycle use, which is committed at least three times a day in the capital of the country, according to data from the Undersecretariat of Transit Control of Mexico City.Read more: They link to the process to driver who escaped after running over 13-year-old boy in AzcapotzalcoTIPIFICATION Citizen Movement party stated that its proposal aims to defend “even with a small step, all those who suffer theft by people who use motorcycles”. He added that the need for citizenship should be addressed in the face of such a heist: initially by typifying its unique modality and then with exemplary sentences, which would go up to 5 years in prison. The CDMX Undersecretariat for Transit has opened from December 5, 2018 to March 12, 2019, more than 350 investigative folders for crimes committed on board motorcycles, from intentional homicide, theft and injury. Although it is true that there is no specific data at the national level of this modality, Humberto Ramón Jarero points out that the operating modus has been highly resorted when usually two subjects assault citizens and flee aboard their motorbikes regardless of traffic or road seals in the area. Read more: Avoid massacre! They arrest young people who would enter Six Flags with a sub-machine gunning station, emphasizing that capital authorities have detected that those who commit heists on board motorbikes have their series numbers altered or have reports of theft.



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