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Guatemalan Twitter user Jean Anleu – “Jeanfer” – has been arrested by police for inciting financial panic.
Specifically, for suggesting in the below pictured tweet that people should start taking their money out of Guatemalan bank Banrural.
Boingboing has some background:The Guatemalan bank Banrural is at the center of the country’s current political crisis: the recently assassinated attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg represented a finance expert, Khalil Musa, who was said to have refused to participate in corrupt transactions involving that bank. Musa was assassinated in March. After continuing to make statements about alleged government complicity in that murder, and in the financial crimes Musa protested, Rosenberg was himself shot to death this past Sunday. Days before his murder, Rosenberg recorded a video saying he believed he would soon be assassinated by forces acting at the orders of Guatemalan president Álvaro Colom. After his death, the video spread virally on YouTube, sparking widespread protests on and offline.
And Demotix has the pictures.