In addition to the protection that has already begun to buildings and businesses in the first table, the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City (SSC) will deploy 3,000 female police officers to guarantee the physical integrity of the people who participate in the March 8 march on the occasion of the International Women’s Day.
The police will not carry weapons, only helmets, shields, elbow pads, knee pads and fire extinguishers, said Marcela Figueroa, undersecretary of Institutional Development of the SSC.
The local official mentioned that the operation will be carried out based on the National Law on the Use of Force.
“Channeling will be carried out supervised by the Human Rights Commission with the aim of preventing people with hammers, Molotov cocktails, firecrackers, tubes, sticks and any object that could endanger the physical integrity of the protesters from entering it” Figueroa specified.
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March 6, 2022
The Rescue Squad and Medical Emergencies It will have 10 ambulances, 10 motorcycles and 75 paramedics to attend to any emergency that may arise on site.
“The objective of this police deployment is to protect the safety of the protesters, as well as passers-by, residents and inhabitants of the areas through which the different contingents will pass,” said the undersecretary.
For her part, the Director General of Government, Adriana Contreras, reported that the Government Secretariat held three meetings with the 8M Coordinator, which promotes and calls for mobilization on the occasion of International Women’s Day, in order to agree on the route of the mobilization that will start from the Angel of Independence, at 4:00 p.m. and will end in the capital’s Zócalo where they will hold a rally.
He called on the participating collectives to avoid acts of violence and vandalism. “It is not ruled out that in the interventions that they try to do some kind of destruction or act of violence against the monuments. The government’s forecast is what I’m telling you about, the placement of the fences, and I think these have worked in previous operations,” Contreras said.
Ingrid Gómez Saracíbar, head of the Secretariat of Women of Mexico City, affirmed that “the feminist movement deserves all our respect and our sympathy, but the City is also a space of freedoms. The government of Mexico City, very committed to making this city a space of freedoms, guarantees the right to demonstrate, but we also have the obligation to guarantee the safety and protection of all the people who participate in it, but also that They are in the street,” he declared.
(With information from Jorge Ramos)
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