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Journalists Alejandro Mendoza and Isidro Corro, covering an operation for a shooting in the Doctores district, reported that police officers of the Security Secretariat in Mexico City beat them, threatened them, and also their work equipment was stolen early this morning.
In a statement, the Mexico City government reported the immediate suspension of the police command in charge of the operation, although it did not give the name of the company. 39, official.
"Police officers who have acted in violation of the institution's protocols, will be punished according to law, proceeding with the responsibilities that derive," detailed the capital authorities.
The local government reported that "Actions against the crime of drug trafficking" in the streets of the Colonia Doctores, delegation Cuauhtémoc, "derived in the injury" of a reporter.
An anonymous call, the authorities said, "alerted the police onboard the MX -209-C1 unit that several men between the ages of 17 and 40 have ingested alcoholic beverages on public roads and have so asked the help of another patrol MX-234C1 to review the site.
the police noticed that the five suspects were carrying, inside different handbags, bags in rubber with green grass, apparently marijuana of an approximate weight of 50 grams each of them so that about 51 envelopes were counted.
In the detention a discussion was generated that caused injuries to people close to the site, among them, a reporter. "
" ARTICLE 19 documents attacks on journalists Isidro Corro, @Azteca, and Alejandro Mendoza of @Reforma, by elements of the @SSP_CDMX when covering a shooting in the colony of Doctores, "said the organization Article 19. [19659009] ARTICLE 19 asks @SSP_CDMx to respect and guarantee the free exercise of journalism. In addition, call FEADLE, @PGR_mx to investigate these attacks and the protection mechanism, from @SEGOB_mx to provide protection for journalists and their families. 19659002] – ARTICLE 19 MX-CA (@ article19mex) July 8, 2018
In a video on social networks, the photojournalist Alejandro Mendoza is observed, the face bloody, denouncing elements of grenadiers, with helmet and l & Riot team, approached and took the cell phone to his daughter, then beat him and stole the phone and his camera.
Mendoza accused of having attempted the journalistic work that he was doing, so he would show up. 19659002] "Mexico City is an avant-garde city where people's rights are respected," he said. "In the team, on the map, there are pictures of them (the elements that attacked him), but obviously they took everything.
The police officers of @SSP_CDMX beat photojournalist Alejandro Mendoza of the newspaper Reform in the doctors of the colony. His team was also stolen.
? @ObturadorMX_ pic.twitter.com/cFQy0CMpCQ– Noise in the network (@RuidoEnLaRed) July 8, 2018
In another video, the journalist Isidro Corro also indicated that he had been threatened by the capital's police and that the physical attacks had occurred
"They warned me that they would attack my life if I brought me closer "
https://t.co/atTerXo5br
– Isidro Corro (@isidrocorro) July 8, 2018
According to the government of the capital," through the intermediary of the Directorate General of Internal Affairs (DGAI) an administrative investigation file was opened to generate consequences that can go from a pre-emptive suspension until the cessation of activities before any kind of bad practice committed around 01:00 hours in the streets Docteur Vértiz and Docte ur Arce. "
Last Wednesday, Hiram Almeida resigned from the property of the Secretariat of Public Security of Mexico City. The resignation, he said, will come into effect on July 31.
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