Claudia Sheinbaum is pressing charges against a man who was caught taking her on the street while interacting with citizens in Mexico City.
The footage of the incident, which was taken on Tuesday while Sheinbaum was on his way back to the national palace after attending a Mexican education event, was followed by an attempt to hug his hands and run his hands up and down his body.
In the video, Sheinbaum is seen grabbing the man’s hands and turning to face him as a security guard intervenes, directing the man to the President.
On Wednesday, Sheinbaum said:
“I decided to file a complaint because this is something I experience as a woman, and it’s something women in our country go through,” she told reporters.
“And my reflection, if I don’t file a complaint – even though this is a crime – what is that situation that leaves all Mexican women?” If they do it for all the young women in our country. ” he added.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum arrives at a polling station to vote in the country’s first election on June 1.
AP Photo / Marco Ugarte
He also called on the regions of Mexico to look at their laws and procedures to make it easier for women to report such attacks and said that Mexicans need to hear “the high space of women must not be violated.”
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According to Sheinbaum, the man continued to harass other women on the same street.
“This person is now under arrest,” he said, adding that he was completely drunk and under the influence of drugs when he arrested him.
Andrea González Martínez, 27, who works for the Mexican lender Nacional Monde de Piedad, told the media that she was harassed on public transport, and was sometimes followed at home.
“It happens all the time, it happens with public transportation,” she said. “It’s something you find every day in Mexico.”
Her co-worker, Carmen Maldonado Castillo, 43, said she saw that.
“It’s not good that people are attacking us,” he said. “You can’t walk around the street.”
When Sheinbaum was chosen, he said it wasn’t just his strength; All women.
Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada relied on Sheinbaum’s words to emphasize that the abuse of any woman affects all women.
“If they attack the President, they attack us all,” he wrote in X.
Brugada said that was “a slogan, a commitment not to look the other way, not to allow minogyny to continue through the veil in the fields, not one more abuse, not one more abuse, not one more abuse.”
The incident raised questions about the President’s safety.
However, Sheinbaum explained any suggestion that he would increase his security or change that he and his team decided to move from the National Palace to the Ministry of Education to make time. He said they can walk there in five minutes, rather than taking a 20-minute drive.
– With files from the accompanying media
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