Extortionist thugs in Mexico torch kindergarten after teachers refuse to hand over Christmas bonuses

Extortionist thugs in Mexico torch kindergarten after teachers refuse to hand over Christmas bonuses: "A group of armed thugs set fire to a kindergarten in Mexico after the teachers there refused to hand over their Christmas bonuses as payment for protection, local police said Monday.

Over the last month, extortionists in the violence-racked city of Juarez, near the U.S. border, have been scrawling messages on school walls threatening attacks on teachers and students if the teachers did not pay protection money.

The thugs had written the phrase, 'Son of a b—ch, pay us,' on one wall of the Constitucion preschool in Juarez's San Antonio neighborhood, and after the teachers had refused to pay, two attackers burst into the school late Sunday night and set the building ablaze."

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