MEXICO CITY: Hundreds of women demanding protection from Mexico City's police force took to the streets on Friday (Aug 17) after a number of ...
MEXICO CITY: Hundreds of women demanding protection from Mexico City's police force took to the streets on Friday after a number of high-profile sexual assault cases involving serving officers.
To shouts of"I do believe you!" and"My friends protect me, you don't," the initially peaceful rally ended with some participants lighting a fire on the second floor of a police building and vandalising a bus station.The protesters also sprayed graffiti on the capital's Independence Monument, adorning the base of the stone edifice with the slogan"damned pigs!"
Two reports of attacks on women this month have sparked outrage and bitter recriminations against the city's police force, with protesters mobilising on social media through the hashtag #NoMeCuidanMeViolan, or"They don't protect me, they rape me."An officer was accused of assaulting a 16-year-old in a museum just days later.
The 40-year-old said there were few protections for women, especially when the men accused were the authorities"that should be protecting us." The city has suspended six police officers as part of the investigation into the 17-year-old's alleged assault, but no arrests have been made. The prosecution has also said there were inconsistencies with the teenager's account of the incident.Violence against women, in the form of femicide, abuse, harassment and sexual assaults, has intensified in the country in recent years. According to the United Nations, an average of nine women are murdered daily in Mexico.
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