FGJCDMX bookseller to photojournalist arrested for harassment in BJ

After nine hours in detention, the Public Ministry released the Reuters photographer apprehended by CDMX police outside a health center in the Benito Juárez mayor’s office, for alleged sexual harassment against a worker of the Ministry of Health (Sedesa) of the capital. Through its social networks, the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City (FGJCDMX) reported on the release of photojournalist Edgar Garrido, after the Public Ministry of the Prosecutor’s Office for the Investigation of Sexual Crimes determined that there was no crime to pursue, only an “atypical conduct.” And it is that the photojournalist of the Reuters agency was taking photographs for a report on Covid-19 outside the health center in the Nonoalco neighborhood, in Benito Juárez, when a Sedesa worker denounced Garrido for harassment, so three elements of the Auxiliary and Banking and Industrial police arrested him, got into a van patrol and took him to the Public Ministry, where he again identified himself as an agency worker. Similarly, the institution in charge of Ernestina Godoy stressed that, after several hours of interviews with the complainant and the accused, as well as the verification of the facts, it was that its elements determined that there was no such harassment, at the same time as releasing the detained photographer. On the case against the photojournalist However, according to journalistic versions, the FGJCDMX would have released him after the nurse of the Sedesa withdrew the accusation against the graphic reporting to recognize having confused between a conduct related to harassment and the journalistic work that Garrido carried out outside the center where she works. While the Mayor’s Office Benito Juárez said in a message that it will request the review of the protocols of action of the Auxiliary and Banking and Industrial police, whose elements are part of its Blindar BJ program, so that the presumption of innocence is guaranteed at all times. Read more: CIDE students reiterate concern about the entry of the SPF to the Santa Fe campus this FridayAnd it is that he stressed that, while the police tried to mediate between both parties and reach an agreement, it was the nurse who requested his referral to the Public Ministry, where he would later have dropped his accusation.



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