Grenadiers beat Tlatelolco residents for protesting over lack of water

After more than 24 hours without water, Neighbors of the third section of Nonoalco Tlatelolco they manifested block the Paseo de la Reforma, up to the Place of the Three cultures, to demand that the authorities Mexico restoration of service.

Before noon on Saturday August 14, several residents of the neighborhood blocked the busy avenue so that their demands could be met, because, according to denunciations, in recent months, they have suffered incessant water cuts.

However, a few hours later, the authorities of the The government of the capital sent elements of the Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) with shields and anti-mountain equipment violently withdraw the neighbors.

According to the neighbors, more than three people were physically assaulted by the police in uniform. Faced with this, they deployed on the sidewalks but did not leave the premises.

Almost at the 9 p.m. gates, after altercations between Tlatelolcas’ neighbors and the men in uniform, the Mayor Néstor Núñez López solve the problem.

According to the manager, the lack of water is caused by a pump system failureHowever, he said he would meet with members of the company working on calm to later release a concrete report.

He also called the neighbors to not believe in information that is not official, since there had been allegations that the failures of the water system came from thefts of wiring, as well as the grenadiers that beat some citizens were sent by the private secretary of the Senator of the Republic, by the bench of Brunette , Marti Batres.

“There was an error in the information that was delivered throughout the day and the only information that I will deliver […] first we have to solve the emergency to have water in all the buildings of the third section, we are working on it, ”he said.

He stressed that in the event of theft, the respective complaints will be presented so that the corresponding investigation file can be launched to find those responsible.

On the other hand, the neighbors present asked him to ask the grenadiers to leave, because they were demonstrating peacefully and the presence of public forces was not necessary.

Information under development

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