Mexico Metropolis. With rockets and firecrackers, college students from the agricultural regular faculty of Ayotzinapa demonstrated this afternoon in entrance of the Nationwide Palace in protest of the discharge of eight troopers accused of the pressured disappearance of 43 college students from that faculty in September 2014.
Unexpectedly, the younger folks—a lot of them with their faces coated—launched these explosive supplies towards the principle and Mariana doorways of the historic web site. After a number of minutes, they left the place with out additional complaints.
The Secretariat of Citizen Safety (SSC) of Mexico Metropolis reported that because of these occasions, 26 capital cops who have been guarding the outskirts of the Nationwide Palace have been injured. In the meantime, contained in the constructing there was a discreet mobilization of the army police to guard the entrances.
Sources linked to the teams that help and have accompanied the households of the victims of the Iguala occasions confirmed that this motion was carried out by Ayotzinapa normalistas of upper grades, though they highlighted that it was carried out with out the authorization of the fathers and moms. of the lacking younger folks or of the motion’s meeting.
In truth, a number of households consulted by this newspaper stated that they weren’t conscious of what occurred this Monday on the Nationwide Palace.
After midday, the protesters arrived on the Zócalo sq., with none mobilization associated to the Ayotzinapa case being contemplated. They demanded an viewers with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Minutes later, and seeing that there was no response from the federal authority, they launched rockets, firecrackers, fences and a few items of road furnishings in direction of the Mariana Gate and the principle gate of the Palace, the place police had been stationed to include a attainable entry into the premises.
Between six and eight booms have been heard exterior the Nationwide Palace. In a number of movies circulating on social networks, you’ll be able to see the second when the normalistas throw firecrackers and different objects towards the doorways of the Palace.
In line with the SSC of Mexico Metropolis, 26 members of the Metropolitan Police, Job Power and Ateneas have been injured as a result of splinters from the firecrackers and rockets, who shaped a containment fence in entrance of the 2 doorways attacked through the manifestation.
Paramedics from the Rescue and Emergency Medical Squad (ERUM) arrived in seven ambulances to deal with the injured, and transferred 25 to a hospital, together with three commanders, as a result of severity of their accidents.
Nearly all of the uniformed officers who have been injured, the SSC reported, have been feminine cops, who had accidents attributable to splinters of their legs, buttocks and calves; whereas in males the impacts have been on the legs, neck and/or pelvic limb.
The commanders who have been injured have been the sub-inspector with the callsign Zorro Gama, a Zorros non-commissioned officer and director Marco Polo. Not one of the protesters have been arrested.
— La Jornada (@lajornadaonline) Could 13, 2024
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