A motorcyclist identified as Abraham Precilla Baga, 24, was arrested yesterday after attacking several women during the International Women’s Day marches on March 8, according to various local media reports.
According to Mexican police reports, the man denied having hit the women and even stated that they had previously attacked him when he was trying to cross the crowd of the pedestrian march on his motorcycle.
The incident, captured on video and widely shared on social media, shows the altercation that escalated to physical violence.
Agents from the Mexico City Citizen Security Secretariat detained the man who was subsequently handed over to the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office.
In Mexico City, hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets yesterday and demonstrated to remind the presidential candidates in the June elections of this year of the urgency of ending machismo, in a country where 10 women are murdered. every day.
“Ladies candidates: don’t stop at campaign promises. Women are killed every day,” could be read on a banner during the march in the Mexican capital, which traveled along the emblematic Paseo de la Reforma avenue to the Zócalo, where the National Palace is located, residence of the current president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
From the south and even the north of Mexico, women from main cities such as Guadalajara, Monterrey and Oaxaca, protested this International Women’s Day in the midst of an atmosphere of violence and electoral campaigns.
In Guadalajara, capital of Jalisco, in western Mexico, the protest was divided into two, one of them called by radical and separatist organizations and another called ‘Florecemos desde las resistances’.
In the second, the majority of feminist groups gathered and included people of sexual diversity and a mixed contingent.
The festive atmosphere was felt in the streets, buses and subway lines, which led the protesters to the center of the city from where both marches departed.
Relatives of missing people and victims of feminicide led the protest that brought together university students, teachers, workers, caregivers, artists and senior citizens who carried signs and scarves, as well as girls who with their purple butterfly wings remembered the hope of a world with equality and rights for them.
A violet wave, framed by purple and green flares, walked through the main avenues of the city with batucada, songs and slogans that, with a single voice, denounced the various violence to which women are exposed every day.
In the north of the country, in Monterrey, state of Nuevo León, thousands of women marched to demand equality and justice and ended up burning signs in front of the state Government Palace headquarters.
The mobilization started from the Esplanade of the Heroes, in front of the Government Palace and concluded with the burning of posters by women.
The authorities threw flares towards the retaining wall that was built around the Government Palace to avoid riots or the burning of the doors of the building like last year.
The women, of all ages, shouted slogans against the state and federal government for the cases of disappearance and feminicide.
The event was guarded by women members of the Civil Force.
Meanwhile, in southern Mexico, in the city of Oaxaca, in the state with the same name, feminist groups also marched to replicate the global protests for ‘8M’.
In this latitude, the fences that the state and civil authorities placed on businesses and historical buildings caused the indignation of the group of feminists who demanded that the authorities protect more bank branches, historical buildings and the Government Palace than the lives of women themselves. .
They threw down wooden and metal fences placed in the Cathedral, banks and businesses.
Likewise, they demolished the metal fences placed to protect the Government Palace of Oaxaca and removed the wooden planks with which they protected windows and set them on fire.
To disperse them, the state authorities threw fire extinguisher smoke at them, which, far from dispersing the protest, motivated it to continue with greater intensity until, also from inside the Palace, they threw at least five charges of tear gas at them.
The gas finally dispersed the protesters so that the State Police and Firefighters could arrive to extinguish the fire and remove the damage.
