Following a confrontation between a group of women and capital police officers who prevented their passage to the Victim Care Executive Commission (CEAV) building, the protesters decided to retreat and return to the CNDH.
The women arrived at the CEAV facility, located in the Del Valle colony, in the mayoral part Benito Juárez, to demand that their demands be met, and to support and carry food to those inside the premises and maintain a seeding for several months.
Upon arriving at the building, screams, insults and nudges were recorded between the women and the security elements.
A woman tried to remove a shield from a policewoman who guards the property, in the face of it, an officer replied; Stop around!
One of the activists replied: You’re the ones who are around. Like they don’t know the victims of the murders are here.”
A group of women told them that if the cops didn’t retreat, they’d set the building on fire.
Protesters left the offices of the National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH), towards the antimonument, located on Avenida Juárez, but decided to take a truck to move them to the Del Valle colony.
Right now at CEAV
Angel Urraza 1137, Col del Valle Centro, Benito Juárez, 03100 Mexico City, CDMX pic.twitter.com/fnrnORxTeX
— Collective Independent Revolts (@ColectivaIndep1) September 12, 2020
Among the women present is Yessenia Zamudio, mother of Marichuy Jaimes, murdered in 2016,” which heads the Ni Una Menos Front, a feminist organization focused on femicides and other gender-based violence, which is part of the collective that took over the offices of the Commission on Human Rights.
The Ministry of Citizen Security deployed more than 50 female police officers with anti-drug equipment – helmets, shields – to guard the main entrance and peripheries of CEAV.
Some women reported that the security elements have assaulted them and began to fold them.
“See how many of us are and see all the cops who send us, how do you think we’re not going to be angry,” Zamudio said.
The agents prevented the collectives and family from entering the building lobby.
“We were just coming to support other colleagues inside CEAV, we bring food,” said one of the protesters.
Now from CEAV pic.twitter.com/j3iSQ4vDMe
— Pamela Cerdeira (@PamCerdeira) September 12, 2020
“I am neither hooded nor paid for by anyone, I am a mother who I am suffering from courage and anguish for not knowing where my son is, because his children are waiting for them. And we’re not moving until Lopez Obrador and the Secretary of the Governorate welcome us and give us an answer,” said one of the protesting mothers.
In a statement, the Undersecretariat for Human Rights reported that whoever is inside the CEAV offices is a lord originally from Chihuahua, an indirect victim of kidnapping in the entity, who remains with three members of his family (two minors), since February 17, 2020, in the agency’s lobby.
CeAV protest that takes months
María Isela Valdez became national news when she knelt before President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the National Palace to ask her for justice in the case of her son Roberto Quiroa, who disappeared in Tamaulipas in 2014, and after which she promised “I will give it to you”, according to account. It’s been more than a year since the only time relatives of the missing were able to meet directly with the president, who was full of grievances, and in which he promised them that every three months they would review their cases, but none of that has happened.
So Maria Isela and other victims of the March 10 Collective set up a seed a few months ago at the door of the Executive Commission on Victim Care (CEAV) to demand decent treatment, among other demands.
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