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Shortly before the closing of the polls, incidents of violence began to be recorded on polling day in Puebla, where groups of armed and hooded individuals came to the polls and opened fire. to steal the ballot boxes
it is reported that these groups attacked at least 16 places in San Francisco Totimehuacán, the auxiliary council of San Aparicio, Loma Bella, Mayorazgo, Rancho Colorado and the district of Barranca Honda.
Violent actions began around 4 pm
In all three places, similar operations are reported: five or six hooded and armed individuals arrived who fired in the air and tried to take the ballot boxes or destroy them and spread the votes already cast
Some voters broadcast videos in which you can see citizens rushing out of the 1593 square in San Francisco Totimehuacán.
A student from the Autonomous University of Puebla stated that the subjects, most of them dressed in black, came into the box violently and shot three times in the air to force people to throw themselves on the floor.
. We are scared. I'm shaking. It's not possible that they treat us like that, that we have to live like this … We do not know yet whether they steal urns or not, people cry because we do not know what to do, "she said through tears. They organized themselves to collect the votes that were thrown on the floor, reinstall everything and resume the vote.
"Here we will continue because we are ready to defend the will of the people," said the student.
from the box detailed that, at the time of the attack, the vote was suspended. Approximately 280 citizens paid for it
In the Loma Bella district, south of Puebla, gunmen entered the 1206 box and took the ballot box
in Box 1048 at the Cultural Center. of Cuauhtémoc, the Colonia Fuentes de San Aparicio, north of the city, beat the president and tried to steal an urn
According to testimonies, the attackers pushed the voters who were trained and threw all the documents to the ground. and urns
When the president of the square confronted them, they beat him, then took the ballot box of the Deputy Federal Vote for District 10 and broke it.
Almost at the same time, other armed groups attacked located in the Barranca Honda Settlement, 1012 of Rancho Colorado and 1187, located in the settlement of Mayorazgo.
According to the complaints, the modus operandi was the same as in the other two places and the shock groups were
The most recent report of the State Electoral Institute (IEE) recorded 39 incidents in the Puebla elections.
The municipalities where the conflicts were reported are at Izucar de Matamoros, Tehuacan, Tlatlauquitepec, Huauchinango, Chignahuapan, Sesma Chalchicomula, Zacapoaxtla, Acatlán de Osorio and Puebla, among others
At the local council meeting, it was reported that because of the risk of violence, voting in the districts was temporarily suspended. from Zacapoaxtla, in the capital Puebla 16, as well as in the Huauchinango Boxes, Puebla District 9 and Atlixco.
The special boxes returned to be a point of contention since only eight were installed throughout the metropolitan area and were located in remote areas.
Dozens of tourists were looking for a place to vote in the historic center, but the eight settlers were in settlements and pointed away, for what taxis should be taking. In the Central Buses there was no box.
Worse still, on their arrival, there were rows of hundreds of people and only 750 tickets. Citizens expressed dissatisfaction with this situation, as many of them were unable to exercise their right to vote.
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