Thread: 10 time deported Mexican arrested, sexual assault

Mexican wanted in sexual-assault cases arrested

By Debbi Baker Originally published 1:17 p.m. December 30, 2008, updated 10:19 p.m., December 30, 2008

SAN DIEGO — A Mexican national with a history of immigration violations and arrests has been taken into custody as a suspect in a series of sexual assaults, authorities said Tuesday.

Carlos Ceron Salazar, 30, was booked into jail Monday in San Diego on suspicion of assault with intention to commit rape, mayhem and sexual battery in connection with an attack in December 2006 on a woman jogging at Miramar Lake, San Diego police said.

The woman told officers at the time that she was running about 12:30 p.m. when a man grabbed her around the neck and forced her to the ground.

She fought him and bit his hand so deeply that when he yanked it away, she lost two of her teeth. She escaped and called for help, police said.
Escondido police arrested Salazar on charges of public intoxication about 1:30 a.m. Dec. 22 on North Escondido Boulevard near West Valley Parkway, Escondido Lt. Bob Benton said.

While Salazar was at the Vista jail, officials ran a routine immigration check and found that he had extensive violations. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lauren Mack said he had multiple apprehensions and had been deported or voluntarily returned to Mexico 10 times.

Further checks discovered that San Diego police and sheriff's detectives suspected him in several sexual assault cases.

ICE agents turned him over to San Diego police, Mack said.

A DNA sample taken from Salazar matched DNA collected from the attack at Miramar Lake as well as DNA taken from an assault in September 2004, authorities said. In that case, a woman jogging along a trail near Community Road in Poway about 8:30 a.m. was raped by a man who came up from behind her and threw her to the ground, said sheriff's Detective Jose Baltz.

Salazar also is a suspect in an attempted sexual assault in December 2005 when a woman was attacked at Lake Poway, Baltz said.
Additional charges of rape with a foreign object and attempted rape will be sought against him, Baltz said.

Sheriff's Department records show that Salazar also had been arrested in 2005 and 2006 on driving-under-the-influence charges.
Salazar is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in San Diego Superior Court. He is being held without bail.

Detectives said they believe Salazar could be involved in other attacks. Authorities are asking anyone with information to call Baltz at the Poway sheriff's station at (85 513-2824, or San Diego police Detective Greg Flood at (619) 531-2210.

Staff writer Pauline Repard contributed to this report.
Debbi Baker: (619) 293-1710; debbi.baker@uniontrib.com

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Forensic science has linked a Mexican man with multiple deportations to at least two sexual assault cases in San Diego County, including a 2004 attack in Poway, authorities said Tuesday, adding that they are seeking the other possible victims.

Escondido police arrested Carlos Ceron Salazar on Dec. 22 on suspicion of public drunkenness, and turned him over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials said.

Federal authorities then contacted the San Diego Police Department, who had placed Salazar on a wanted list, San Diego police spokeswoman Monica Munoz said.

Salazar was suspected of attempting to rape a woman jogging at Miramar Lake two years ago, but by the time police identified him in that case, he had already been deported, Munoz said.

In the Miramar Lake attack, the woman bit her assailant so hard that two of her teeth were ripped out when he pulled his hand away, Munoz said. The man's DNA was taken from the teeth and entered into a criminal database, she said.

That DNA matched other DNA taken after a September 2004 attack that occurred on Community Road in Poway, she said. Detectives believe Salazar may have been involved in other attacks in the Lake Poway area, she said.

Salazar was being held Tuesday in a San Diego jail on suspicion of assault with intent to commit rape, mayhem, and sexual battery, she said. He is scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 31 in San Diego.

Salazar has had mulitple apprehensions and has been sent back to Mexico at least 10 times, said Lauren Mack, a public information officer for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Anyone with information about possible victims is asked to call Det. Jose Baltz at the Poway sheriff's station, (85 513-2824, or San Diego police Det. Greg Flood, (619) 531-2210.

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Originally Posted by ELE

I think America should treat Salazar the way he would be treated in Mexico if he dared to commit rape even once. he would be jailed for the first offense and killed for the second offense.

Ouch! You missed it on that one. Read this and see what really happens in mexico where rape is actually called "harmless and romantic". These are part of those good ol' "family values" they bring with them. It's no wonder they say when they're caught raping a child in our nation, "In my culture, it's acceptable." The customs in that ... place....south of us are disgusting.

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/144874.php

In Mexican villages, rape can be called a courting ritual
by Legislación Federal de México Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006 at 10:49 AM


Rape is prosecuted at the state level, and state laws vary. A review of criminal laws in all 31 states showed that many required that if, for example, a 12-year-old girl accused an adult of statutory rape, she had first to prove she was "chaste and pure." Nineteen of the states required that statutory rape charges be dropped if the rapist agreed to marry his victim

In Mexican villages, rape can be called a courting ritual
by Legislación Federal de México Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006 at 8:05 AM


Rape is prosecuted at the state level, and state laws vary. A review of criminal laws in all 31 states showed that many required that if, for example, a 12-year-old girl accused an adult of statutory rape, she had first to prove she was "chaste and pure." Nineteen of the states required that statutory rape charges be dropped if the rapist agreed to marry his victim.

We have always found it difficult to pinpoint Mexico's laws regarding sex. We recently found this article which explains some of the difficulties with rape/statutory rape issues:

In Mexican villages, rape can be called a courting ritual
Mary Jordan Tuesday, July 2, 2002

REYESHOGPAN, Mexico These gorgeous mountain slopes, blooming with black pepper plants and golden cornstalks, camouflage the sorrow of the two silent sisters. Antonia and Isabel Francisco Melendez, who were born deaf, are nine months pregnant, and, according to the doctors treating them, were raped.

The sisters cannot speak. They cried and literally folded up when asked how they became pregnant. Their babies are due at the same time, within a week or so. Do they know the man? Did it happen in the fields on their way home from school? Isabel seemed once to try to reply, to her grandmother, by pointing to a spot high on a mountainside. But tears streamed down her face, and she turned away again.

Antonia is 13 years old, Isabel 16. Perhaps if they were older, the pregnancies would have been easier to keep secret.
This is a little town 136 kilometers (85 miles) northeast of Puebla city. Fewer than 500 people live here. The church bells toll every afternoon at 5 to call everyone to say the rosary. The girls' condition is hard to hide. Their tiny frames swell more each day. "This is a crime, and there should be an investigation," said Juana Maria Diego Victor, a community leader. "Someone should protect these girls."

Mexico is struggling to modernize its justice system, but [b]when it comes to punishing sexual violence against women, surprisingly little has changed in a century.[/b] In many parts of the country, the sentence for stealing a cow is harsher than for rape. Although the law calls for tough penalties for rape - up to 20 years in prison - only rarely is there an investigation into even the most barbaric of sexual violence. Women's groups estimate that perhaps 1 percent of rapes are ever punished. Although the two girls' medical charts say their pregnancies were the product of rape, no police authority has looked into the case.

In recent decades, Mexico has made strides in improving women's rights and opportunities. Women still have much lower literacy rates than men, but that is slowly changing as young girls are staying in school longer. During the 1990s, laws that limited women's rights were abolished, such as those that said a married woman needed her husband's permission to hold a job outside the home.

But in the country that made the term machismo famous, where women were given the right to vote only in 1953, women's rights advocates say rape and other acts of violence against women are still not treated as serious crimes. And they say the police, prosecutors and judges often show indifference or hostility toward women who report rape. The case of Yessica Yadira Diaz Cazares is an example.

Diaz testified that three police officers raped her in 1997, when she was 16, as she was on her way home from school in the northern city of Durango. She then did a rare thing. She tried to punish her attackers. When she went to the police station with her mother, she was jeered at and jailed overnight. The police required her, as is mandatory in Mexico, to have a vaginal exam by a government doctor. They made her submit to eight separate blood tests, telling her, falsely, that the tests would determine whether she had been raped. But no one ever told her what the laboratory results were.

When the teenager did not back off, even after her family received death threats, a prosecutor told her that to identify the officers who attacked her, she had to lay her hand on them. It was not good enough to point out her attackers. She needed to touch them, she was instructed. When she reached out and touched an officer, he taunted her and told her she was crazy. Finally she gave up. She told her sister she was tired of seeking justice. Three months later, the young girl killed herself with an overdose of prescription drugs. After her burial, the national human rights commission took up her case and helped to convict two officers of rape.

"They make the few women who dare to report rape give up," said Yessica's mother, Maria Eugenia Cazares. After her daughter's suicide, she moved her family to Canada. "In 90 percent of the cases of rape, the Mexican police blame the women," she said. "In the few cases where they know the man is guilty, they let him 'fix' it with money." She said she believed that a machismo culture, instilled in the home, school and church, allowed many men to "believe they are superior and dominant, and that women are an object." She said that mentality had contributed to making many men - including policemen, prosecutors, judges and others in positions of authority - believe that sexual violence against women was not important.

"The thinking is, 'She's a woman, so she deserved it,' or 'He's a man, so what do you expect?'" said Cazares.

Rape is prosecuted at the state level, and state laws vary. A review of criminal laws in all 31 states showed that many required that if, for example, a 12-year-old girl accused an adult of statutory rape, she had first to prove she was "chaste and pure." Nineteen of the states required that statutory rape charges be dropped if the rapist agreed to marry his victim.

"What message is this? That the crime is not serious," said Elena Azaola, author of a book called "The Crime of Being a Woman."

For a woman to file a criminal complaint of rape, she must submit to an examination by a doctor assigned by the prosecutor's office. Patricia Duarte, president of the Mexican Association Against Violence Against Women, said these exams, routinely conducted in the prosecutor's office, are often carried out with little sensitivity or privacy.

Whatever problems women face in the cities and towns are compounded in the villages, where the only real law is customary law. Ten million Mexicans are indigenous, as are most people in these highlands of the Sierra Madre.

In many of the thousands of indigenous communities, by custom, women are essentially servants of their fathers, brothers and husbands. In many villages around Reyeshogpan, a woman is forbidden to go out after dusk without her husband or her husband's permission. After 7 p.m., streets in village after village are populated only by men, many of them drunk. Alcoholism is another problem that contributes to violence against women.

Town elders, who act as judges in local criminal matters, are invariably men. In one village in Guerrero state, elders were recently asked how they punished rape. The six men looked confused, as if they did not know what the term meant. When it was explained to them, they all laughed and said it sounded more like a courting ritual than a crime.

When they stopped laughing, they said a rapist would probably get a few hours in the local jail, or he might have to pay the victim's family a $10 or $20 fine, but that all would be forgotten if he and the victim married.

In the case of a cattle thief, they said, he would be jailed. And, unlike the rapist, a cattle thief would be brought before the elders for a lecture about the severity of the crime.

In the southern state of Oaxaca last summer, the government-funded Oaxacan Women's Institute persuaded the legislature to pass heavy criminal penalties against a practice known as "rapto." Laws in most states define rapto as a case in which a man kidnaps a woman not for ransom but with the intent of marrying her or to satisfy his "erotic sexual desire." The new law championed by the women's group established penalties of at least 10 years in prison.

But in March, the state legislature reversed itself and again made the practice a minor infraction. A key legislator - a man - argued for the reduction, calling the practice harmless and "romantic."

The attorney general's office said there had been 137 criminal complaints of rapto in the state of Puebla since January 2000. Complete statistics are impossible to find, because most cases are settled between the families involved and never reported. Because rapto implies that the girl was taken away for sex, her parents want to avoid the shame associated with making a public complaint to the police.

In some cases, the girls voluntarily go with the man as a way to elope to avoid wedding expenses. But Gabriela Gutierrez Kleman, a lawyer with the Oaxacan Women's Institute, says that in many cases the women are taken against their will.

Gutierrez said it was hard to ask girls to complain about rapto, a custom that has changed little since their great-grandmothers' time. If they complain, she said, the family or the community often "treats them as outcasts."


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Originally Posted by ELE

I think America should treat Salazar the way he would be treated in Mexico if he dared to commit rape even once. he would be jailed for the first offense and killed for the second offense.

Ouch! You missed it on that one. Read this and see what really happens in mexico where rape is actually called "harmless and romantic". These are part of those good ol' "family values" they bring with them. It's no wonder they say when they're caught raping a child in our nation, "In my culture, it's acceptable." The customs in that ... place....south of us are disgusting.

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/144874.php

In Mexican villages, rape can be called a courting ritual
by Legislación Federal de México Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006 at 10:49 AM


Rape is prosecuted at the state level, and state laws vary. A review of criminal laws in all 31 states showed that many required that if, for example, a 12-year-old girl accused an adult of statutory rape, she had first to prove she was "chaste and pure." Nineteen of the states required that statutory rape charges be dropped if the rapist agreed to marry his victim

In Mexican villages, rape can be called a courting ritual
by Legislación Federal de México Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006 at 8:05 AM


Rape is prosecuted at the state level, and state laws vary. A review of criminal laws in all 31 states showed that many required that if, for example, a 12-year-old girl accused an adult of statutory rape, she had first to prove she was "chaste and pure." Nineteen of the states required that statutory rape charges be dropped if the rapist agreed to marry his victim.

We have always found it difficult to pinpoint Mexico's laws regarding sex. We recently found this article which explains some of the difficulties with rape/statutory rape issues:

In Mexican villages, rape can be called a courting ritual
Mary Jordan Tuesday, July 2, 2002

REYESHOGPAN, Mexico These gorgeous mountain slopes, blooming with black pepper plants and golden cornstalks, camouflage the sorrow of the two silent sisters. Antonia and Isabel Francisco Melendez, who were born deaf, are nine months pregnant, and, according to the doctors treating them, were raped.

The sisters cannot speak. They cried and literally folded up when asked how they became pregnant. Their babies are due at the same time, within a week or so. Do they know the man? Did it happen in the fields on their way home from school? Isabel seemed once to try to reply, to her grandmother, by pointing to a spot high on a mountainside. But tears streamed down her face, and she turned away again.

Antonia is 13 years old, Isabel 16. Perhaps if they were older, the pregnancies would have been easier to keep secret.
This is a little town 136 kilometers (85 miles) northeast of Puebla city. Fewer than 500 people live here. The church bells toll every afternoon at 5 to call everyone to say the rosary. The girls' condition is hard to hide. Their tiny frames swell more each day. "This is a crime, and there should be an investigation," said Juana Maria Diego Victor, a community leader. "Someone should protect these girls."

Mexico is struggling to modernize its justice system, but [b]when it comes to punishing sexual violence against women, surprisingly little has changed in a century.[/b] In many parts of the country, the sentence for stealing a cow is harsher than for rape. Although the law calls for tough penalties for rape - up to 20 years in prison - only rarely is there an investigation into even the most barbaric of sexual violence. Women's groups estimate that perhaps 1 percent of rapes are ever punished. Although the two girls' medical charts say their pregnancies were the product of rape, no police authority has looked into the case.

In recent decades, Mexico has made strides in improving women's rights and opportunities. Women still have much lower literacy rates than men, but that is slowly changing as young girls are staying in school longer. During the 1990s, laws that limited women's rights were abolished, such as those that said a married woman needed her husband's permission to hold a job outside the home.

But in the country that made the term machismo famous, where women were given the right to vote only in 1953, women's rights advocates say rape and other acts of violence against women are still not treated as serious crimes. And they say the police, prosecutors and judges often show indifference or hostility toward women who report rape. The case of Yessica Yadira Diaz Cazares is an example.

Diaz testified that three police officers raped her in 1997, when she was 16, as she was on her way home from school in the northern city of Durango. She then did a rare thing. She tried to punish her attackers. When she went to the police station with her mother, she was jeered at and jailed overnight. The police required her, as is mandatory in Mexico, to have a vaginal exam by a government doctor. They made her submit to eight separate blood tests, telling her, falsely, that the tests would determine whether she had been raped. But no one ever told her what the laboratory results were.

When the teenager did not back off, even after her family received death threats, a prosecutor told her that to identify the officers who attacked her, she had to lay her hand on them. It was not good enough to point out her attackers. She needed to touch them, she was instructed. When she reached out and touched an officer, he taunted her and told her she was crazy. Finally she gave up. She told her sister she was tired of seeking justice. Three months later, the young girl killed herself with an overdose of prescription drugs. After her burial, the national human rights commission took up her case and helped to convict two officers of rape.

"They make the few women who dare to report rape give up," said Yessica's mother, Maria Eugenia Cazares. After her daughter's suicide, she moved her family to Canada. "In 90 percent of the cases of rape, the Mexican police blame the women," she said. "In the few cases where they know the man is guilty, they let him 'fix' it with money." She said she believed that a machismo culture, instilled in the home, school and church, allowed many men to "believe they are superior and dominant, and that women are an object." She said that mentality had contributed to making many men - including policemen, prosecutors, judges and others in positions of authority - believe that sexual violence against women was not important.

"The thinking is, 'She's a woman, so she deserved it,' or 'He's a man, so what do you expect?'" said Cazares.

Rape is prosecuted at the state level, and state laws vary. A review of criminal laws in all 31 states showed that many required that if, for example, a 12-year-old girl accused an adult of statutory rape, she had first to prove she was "chaste and pure." Nineteen of the states required that statutory rape charges be dropped if the rapist agreed to marry his victim.

"What message is this? That the crime is not serious," said Elena Azaola, author of a book called "The Crime of Being a Woman."

For a woman to file a criminal complaint of rape, she must submit to an examination by a doctor assigned by the prosecutor's office. Patricia Duarte, president of the Mexican Association Against Violence Against Women, said these exams, routinely conducted in the prosecutor's office, are often carried out with little sensitivity or privacy.

Whatever problems women face in the cities and towns are compounded in the villages, where the only real law is customary law. Ten million Mexicans are indigenous, as are most people in these highlands of the Sierra Madre.

In many of the thousands of indigenous communities, by custom, women are essentially servants of their fathers, brothers and husbands. In many villages around Reyeshogpan, a woman is forbidden to go out after dusk without her husband or her husband's permission. After 7 p.m., streets in village after village are populated only by men, many of them drunk. Alcoholism is another problem that contributes to violence against women.

Town elders, who act as judges in local criminal matters, are invariably men. In one village in Guerrero state, elders were recently asked how they punished rape. The six men looked confused, as if they did not know what the term meant. When it was explained to them, they all laughed and said it sounded more like a courting ritual than a crime.

When they stopped laughing, they said a rapist would probably get a few hours in the local jail, or he might have to pay the victim's family a $10 or $20 fine, but that all would be forgotten if he and the victim married.

In the case of a cattle thief, they said, he would be jailed. And, unlike the rapist, a cattle thief would be brought before the elders for a lecture about the severity of the crime.

In the southern state of Oaxaca last summer, the government-funded Oaxacan Women's Institute persuaded the legislature to pass heavy criminal penalties against a practice known as "rapto." Laws in most states define rapto as a case in which a man kidnaps a woman not for ransom but with the intent of marrying her or to satisfy his "erotic sexual desire." The new law championed by the women's group established penalties of at least 10 years in prison.

But in March, the state legislature reversed itself and again made the practice a minor infraction. A key legislator - a man - argued for the reduction, calling the practice harmless and "romantic."

The attorney general's office said there had been 137 criminal complaints of rapto in the state of Puebla since January 2000. Complete statistics are impossible to find, because most cases are settled between the families involved and never reported. Because rapto implies that the girl was taken away for sex, her parents want to avoid the shame associated with making a public complaint to the police.

In some cases, the girls voluntarily go with the man as a way to elope to avoid wedding expenses. But Gabriela Gutierrez Kleman, a lawyer with the Oaxacan Women's Institute, says that in many cases the women are taken against their will.

Gutierrez said it was hard to ask girls to complain about rapto, a custom that has changed little since their great-grandmothers' time. If they complain, she said, the family or the community often "treats them as outcasts."


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I have no idea how this posted twice. I'm sorry. I came back to do a "bttt" because I think it's important that we understand just what they think of women in mexico. These are the mores they bring with them, and that doesn't change because they crawl under the border through a tunnel.

Lock him up and throw away the key, never to see the light of day again!

Cops Say Rapist Foiled By His Own DNA & Dumb Moves

Posted: Dec 31, 2008 09:08 AM PST

Updated: Dec 31, 2008 09:08 AM PST




A man suspected in a string of sexual assaults will be arraigned Wednesday. Police say they linked Carlos Ceron Salazar to at least two assaults by his DNA.

In September 2004, a woman was attacked at Lake Poway and in December 2006 a woman was attacked at Lake Miramar.

Salazar was considered a suspect in the Miramar attack. But he was deported to Mexico before he could be prosecuted.

Salazar was arrested last week in Escondido for allegedly being drunk in public.

A DNA swab came up with a match to the attacks
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=9600834

Suspect in jogger assaults pleads not guilty

By Dana Littlefield (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer
3:19 p.m. December 31, 2008

A Mexican national accused of sexually assaulting female joggers in 2004 and 2006 pleaded not guilty Wednesday to several felony charges stemming from the attacks.

Carlos Ceron Salazar faces 11 counts, including assault with intent to commit rape, attempted rape, sexual battery and false imprisonment. If convicted, he could be sent to prison for up to 38 years.

San Diego Superior Court Judge David M. Szumowski set Salazar's bail at $500,000 and placed an immigration hold on him. The Office of the Alternate Public Defender was appointed to represent him.

Deputy District Attorney Patrick Espinoza said outside the courtroom that the bail amount was appropriate given the facts of the case. The attorneys met with the judge in chambers briefly before the arraignment, but they discussed few details in open court.

According to San Diego police, Salazar, 30, was booked Monday in connection with a December 2006 attack on a woman jogging at Miramar Lake about 12:30 p.m. The woman told officers at the time that a man grabbed her around the neck and forced her to the ground.

She struggled with her attacker and bit his hand so deeply that when he yanked it away, she lost two of her teeth. She was able to get away and call for help, police said.

Escondido police arrested Salazar on Dec. 22 on charges of public intoxication. While he was in the County Jail, officials discovered he was suspected in several local sexual assault cases and had numerous immigration violations.

He had been deported or returned voluntarily to Mexico 10 times, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She said Salazar was not criminally prosecuted on any immigration violations after he was deported because he had not been convicted of any major crimes.

“Based on his lack of criminal record at the time we encountered him, there were other, more egregious cases to prosecute involving immigration offenders with serious criminal convictions,â€

Suspect in jogger assaults pleads not guilty

By Dana Littlefield (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer
3:19 p.m. December 31, 2008

A Mexican national accused of sexually assaulting female joggers in 2004 and 2006 pleaded not guilty Wednesday to several felony charges stemming from the attacks.

Carlos Ceron Salazar faces 11 counts, including assault with intent to commit rape, attempted rape, sexual battery and false imprisonment. If convicted, he could be sent to prison for up to 38 years.

San Diego Superior Court Judge David M. Szumowski set Salazar's bail at $500,000 and placed an immigration hold on him. The Office of the Alternate Public Defender was appointed to represent him.

Deputy District Attorney Patrick Espinoza said outside the courtroom that the bail amount was appropriate given the facts of the case. The attorneys met with the judge in chambers briefly before the arraignment, but they discussed few details in open court.

According to San Diego police, Salazar, 30, was booked Monday in connection with a December 2006 attack on a woman jogging at Miramar Lake about 12:30 p.m. The woman told officers at the time that a man grabbed her around the neck and forced her to the ground.
She struggled with her attacker and bit his hand so deeply that when he yanked it away, she lost two of her teeth. She was able to get away and call for help, police said.

Escondido police arrested Salazar on Dec. 22 on charges of public intoxication. While he was in the County Jail, officials discovered he was suspected in several local sexual assault cases and had numerous immigration violations.

He had been deported or returned voluntarily to Mexico 10 times, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She said Salazar was not criminally prosecuted on any immigration violations after he was deported because he had not been convicted of any major crimes.

[color=darkred][b]“Based on his lack of criminal record at the time we encountered him, there were other, more egregious cases to prosecute involving immigration offenders with serious criminal convictions,â€