NGO Says Mexican Law Enforcement Unable to Control Violent Situations Fernando Camacho Servin - La Jornada
go to original October 5, 2013

The aggressions such as five human rights activists suffered while they were documenting attacks and arbitrary arrests by the Mexico City police during the march commemorating the massacre in Tlatelolco, are now a pattern that allows us to see the lack of training that law enforcement has in controlling violent groups, different social organizations pointed out.

At a press conference José Rosario Marroquín, director of the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Center for Human Rights [Prodh], reported that five members of the organization had violence used against them by members of the Secretariat of Public Security of the Federal District while they were working to monitor the march.

As confirmed by the group, activist Víctor Carlos Banda was thrown to the floor and received a "brutal beating" from several police officers, in an incident where Quetzalcóatl Fontanot, Araceli Olivos, Xosé R. Figueroa and Simón Hernández León were also attacked, explained Marroquín, who demanded that those responsible for the attack be penalized and that the occurrence not be repeated.

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Translated by Sally Seward

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