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But Ligia Herrera Mendez, the mother of the dead assailant, claimed the tourists of took the law into their own hands.
“We want justice, this can’t go unpunished, because they could have saved him,” she said in an interview in Limon. “If this had happened in the United States, the suspect would have been detained and wouldn’t have left the country.”
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As for if it had been in the US... it wasn't! Good riddance.