Police arrested a gay couple for kissing his boyfriend on the forehead. Full article here, sorry only in Spanish
http://www.milenio.com/node/98023
If you were considering Playa del Carmen for a winter get away might re think that choice.
Sam
Here is a quick translation
TRANSLATION: They imprison for a kiss in the forehead
A homosexual couple of USA citizens that reside in Beach of Carmen, Quintana Roo, denounced that were arrested and imprisoned for 15 hours.
The couple said that the policemen who detained them were asking for money them. I file
A homosexual couple of USA citizens that reside in Beach of Carmen, Quintana Roo, denounced that were arrested and imprisoned for 15 hours, beside paying a bail of 2,000 Pesos for embracing each other and to kiss itself in the thoroughfare, which the policemen argued “ is a lack to the morality ”.
22-year-old Eric Schroeder of age, son of mother with USA nationality, and the Puerto Rican 35-year-old Jose Méndez, assured that about 10:30 p.m. of last October 10 they were detained by elements of the beach local police of Carmen when in house of one of them they were saying goodbye.
“We were solving a few differences that we had, it were a few embraces and a kiss in the forehead. In it they came, and to the handcuffs put and raised us for lacks to the morality ”, reported Schroeder, in interview, and denied that they should realize any sexual activity.
The young men commented that before coming to the Headquarter of Public Security and local Traffic “they walked us” while they were raising more persons who allegedly had committed other crimes. “They wanted money and on having seen that they were not obtaining it they took us”.
Eric indicated that at his arrival to the police offices “ one of them said to my boyfriend ‘ male prostitute of .... ’ and other one commented that what we did already is not illegal, they already can embrace each other. But they kept silent about it ”.
In agreement to the statement of the couple the police yes had knowledge of which they were USA citizens , since even they them enclosed in the cell 1 dedicated to the foreigners. Nevertheless, never him it informed the authorities of EU, since it is established by the Code Penal of Quintana Roo's Procedure, in the article 22.
Schroeder indicated that last Thursday they confirmed this fact with the consul Samantha Mason, who assured them that they did not have in this office knowledge of the case and offered to them all his support suggesting them to present a complaint before the Commission of Human rights of the condition.
The young man indicated that “we were like five (in this cell): one of Guatemala, one of Cuba and then a Slovak came. Nobody was noticing us”. At 3 p.m. of enclosed he indicated that a policeman offered to extract money of one of his cards of credit to pay the bail, “he charged from us 300 for the favor”.