Hooded males linked to the Iguala 43 attempt to assault the National Palace of López Obrador | EUROtoday

A bunch of hooded younger folks linked to the Ayotzinapa Normal Schoolthe identical one which 43 college students disappeared in 2014, has tried to assault the National Palace the place Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) lives and works. The protesters carry a number of weeks demanding a gathering with the president Mexican to demand progress within the investigation, after greater than 10 years with out solutions.

After a number of minutes of pressure, the navy police in control of guarding the presidential headquarters have managed to disperse the assailants who proceed to mobilize within the surrounding space. The Mexican president has accused them of “provoking” and has refused to fulfill with themas they’ve been claiming for months.

The assault occurred on the similar time that López Obrador was providing, contained in the National Palace, his normal morning press convention, popularly referred to as 'Maanera'. After heading to one of many sides of the federal government constructing, the hooded males They have knocked down one of many entry doorways used a truck stolen from the Federal Electricity Commission as a battering ram.

After a number of makes an attempt, the wood door has collapsed and the protesters have threatened to enter the constructing, however they’ve encountered a human barricade erected by navy cops, armed with shields and batons. The scene of pressure, which was near changing into a tragedy, lasted about 10 minutes wherein the younger folks damaged a number of home windowshe made painted and so they have launched stones with slingshot contained in the constructing, earlier than being dispersed with tear gasoline.

Asked by a reporter, the Mexican president confirmed that the Undersecretary of the Interior, Arturo Medina, goes to fulfill with the protesters, however that he’s not going to obtain them: “No, I am analyzing and directing everything because what matters to me is is to find the (43) young people.”

“We don't want confrontation”

AMLO has additionally regretted the vital place that the victims' setting has adopted in latest months, “the attitude, not of the parents, but of the advisors and organizations that supposedly defend human rights, is an attitude, at best. of the cases, politics, very confrontational against us, provocative, and We don't want confrontation at all.“.

The Mexican president has accused the kinfolk of permitting themselves to be manipulated by “right-wing conservative groups supported by foreign governments that what they want is to harm us politically speaking (…) what they want is not for us to come to know the truth and for it to be done.” justice, however they have already got it as a flag towards us.

Likewise, AMLO has downplayed the assault, which has as soon as once more proven the widespread discontent of sufferer teams along with his Government, and has reiterated that he feels protected “in any part of the country, the people take care of me.”

During his marketing campaign for the PresidencyLópez Obrador made a flag of the case of the 43 lacking college students in Iguala, committing to seek out their our bodies and supply solutions to the victims' kinfolk. However, past some symbolic gestures, reminiscent of classifying the case as a state crime or banishing the 'historic reality' that his predecessor, Enrique Pea Nieto, bought because the thesis of what occurred, the investigation has supplied little or no progress.

Last July, the impartial group of consultants (GIEI) left Mexico denouncing the opacity of the Army, which has refused at hand over a whole bunch of navy espionage paperwork that, in keeping with them, may maintain the important thing to unblocking the investigation. The subsequent September 26 will mark 10 years of this tragedyone of the symbolic within the latest historical past of Mexico, and all the pieces signifies that the AMLO authorities won’t fulfill its promise to resolve it.