A crazy video captured the moment an unfortunate arsonist accidentally set himself on fire while apparently trying to set a politician’s office on fire in the city of Morón, Argentina.
Surveillance footage shared on social media shows the unfortunate insect rolling on the ground engulfed in flames, before running away.
The fire occurred around 2:30 a.m. local time on October 9 in front of the office of Leandro Ugartemendia, a member of the PRO party who is running for mayor of Morón, a city of more than 92,000 inhabitants located in the Greater Metropolitan area. Buenos Aires. area.
CCTV cameras captured the arsonist dousing the front of the mayoral candidate’s office with a flammable liquid and then setting it on fire.
But the clueless saboteur clearly did not expect his actions to produce a massive fireball of such intensity that it would leave him engulfed in flames.
A huge fireball is seen outside the office of a mayoral candidate in the city of Morón, Argentina, during an arson attack. Breaking news
In the video he is seen running in the middle of the road with his clothes on fire.
He makes frantic attempts to put out the fire and collapses to the ground, his hands savagely beating the flames that are ravaging his pants.
After finally extinguishing the fire, the failed arsonist gets up and runs away. He has not been identified and was being sought by authorities.
The arsonist was captured on CCTV video dousing Leandro Ugartemendia’s office with a flammable liquid and setting it on fire. Breaking news The absent-minded criminal was engulfed in flames and ran in the middle of the road. Breaking news
Ugartemendia, the mayoral candidate whose office was the target of the vicious attack, shared the security camera footage on his X account, formerly Twitter, condemning the incident and demanding greater security measures.
“I recently committed to closing the Criminal Assistance Office if I was elected mayor of Morón, and today our office in Agüero was burned down,” Ugartemendia wrote. “I know this is the price of standing up to criminals. “They won’t stop us.”
The Unión por la Patria party, opposition to the PRO in Morón, denounced the arson attack in a message on social networks titled “No to political violence.”
The arsonist managed to put out the flames that were ravaging his pants, after which he fled the scene. Breaking news
“Acts such as the one recorded at that party headquarters are unacceptable and require accelerating and deepening measures to find all those responsible for the attack, which directly affects that political force, while degrading the democratic coexistence of the Morón people,” officials said. of the party. he wrote.
“Those of us who, during these 40 years of democracy, have committed and fought for the free expression of ideas and in favor of political activism, cannot and will not tolerate any type of violent expressions that intimidate society or attempt to censor those who wish to express themselves politically,” they added.
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