According to footage from Mexican television Milenio, several dozen people protesting the kidnapping and disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzina Normal School in 2014 broke down one of the doors of the presidential palace in Mexico City.
Channel footage shows protesters using a van to break down a door before some enter the presidential palace with their faces masked.
Local media El Universal reported that military police reportedly used gas and protective equipment such as shields and sticks to disperse protesters.
“A very controversial political position”
After these clashes, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador condemned “the attitude not of parents, but of advisers and organizations that should defend human rights, (which) at best is a very political position that is contrary to us. The head of state also said that he would not meet with the parents of the missing students, but an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs would listen to them.
“They would like us to react violently. We are not going to do this because we are not oppressors,” he also said. “We will repair the door, and there will be no problems,” he assured.
Demonstrators have already tried to attack the doors of the National Palace, the presidential residence since 2018. For the first time in many years, they managed to achieve their goal.
Regular events
Relatives of the 43 missing, accompanied by their lawyers, activists and students, regularly demonstrate in central Mexico City, especially as the anniversary of the tragedy approaches. A camp in their memory is set up on the main artery in the center of the capital, opposite the national palace.
The Ayotzinapa students disappeared on the night of September 27, 2014, after traveling to Iguala, in the southern state of Guerrero, where they were preparing to board several buses to travel to the Mexican capital to take part in a demonstration.
According to the official version, they were kidnapped by the police in collusion with criminals and taken to the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which allegedly killed them. This case traumatized the country.
In 2023, foreign experts deemed it “impossible” to continue the examination, begun in 2015, of the case of 43 students who disappeared in Mexico in 2014 due to a cover-up by the Mexican state found guilty.
President López Obrador has vowed to thoroughly review the investigation and find the missing young people.
Source: Le Parisien
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