Last Tuesday, November 4, President Claudia Sheinbaum was the victim of an episode of street harassment outside National Palace. The moment was videotaped and The President decided to file a complaint against the subject for this crime classified in Mexico City. Given this unpleasant fact, businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliegospoke on social networks and He asserted that everything was a setup to stop talking about the murder of Carlos Manzo.
This day, during “The Morning“, the President regretted this episode and gave more details about it: “Why did I walk away? [Desde Palacio Nacional hacia la Secretaría de Educación Pública] Because it is shorter, it has no other explanation: […] We decided to walk; Many people greeted us, without problem, until this totally drunk person approached and that’s when I experienced this episode of harassment..”
The President declared that she filed a complaint against the subject because he should be an example for the women of Mexico, since no man has the right to violate their personal space without their consent. She said that, since she was young, she has experienced this type of harassment, and said that this issue is something that women experience every day in our country.
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Ricardo Salinas questions the sensitive case of harassment towards Sheinbaum
This Wednesday, November 5, the Mexican businessman shared a photograph of Uriel “N”identified as the alleged harasser of the Presidentwho was made available to the Sexual Crimes Investigation Prosecutor’s Office of Mexico City. The owner of the Salinas Group assured that the arrest of this man is a setup so that people and the media leave aside the assassination of Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, Michoacánshot dead during the Candle Festival last November 1st.
Ricardo Salinas shares the photograph of Uriel “N”, alleged harasser of President Claudia Sheinbaum. X / @RicardoBSalinas
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Followers of the Mexican businessman agreed with him in the comments of the publication. They assured that this episode of street harassment against the President was a “smokescreen“.
For her part, Sheinbaum promised to review the case from the law, together with Citlali Hernández Mora, head of the Women’s Secretariat, seeking to classify harassment as a criminal offense in all entities of the countryin the same way that is in force in Mexico City.
“I asked Citlali that we review if it is a criminal offense in all states, because it must be a criminal offense, […] We are going to run a campaign, not related to the President, but to all Mexican women. There must be respect for women, in every sense, and harassment is a crime. No one can violate our personal space, no one, no man has the right to violate our personal space, the only way is the woman’s approval. That can’t happen“he asserted.
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