A group of rebellious police officers, who demand the dismissal of Marcela Muñoz Martínez, head of the Secretariat of Citizen Protection and Security (SPSC), clashed with agents loyal to the official when they tried to enter the agency’s alternate headquarters to demand the delivery of their checks and were repelled by their fellow officers.
The rampage left at least five policewomen with minor bruises and nervous breakdowns.
A little more than 100 dissatisfied uniformed officers, aboard two SPSC buses, went yesterday at noon to the government palace to demand their salaries and were informed that the payment would be made at said headquarters that temporarily operates at the Police Academy, where they moved.
However, they were received with hostility. Agents loyal to Muñoz Martínez, reinforced by heavily armed ministerial police, took control of the access to the facilities, and refused to let them pass, which led to an argument and struggle.
Although at the beginning they were informed that they would be attended to, some 150 elements loyal to Marcela Muñoz Martínez arrived suddenly to repel the rebel agents. They prevented the female police officers from passing and beat at least five of them. The troops loyal to Muñoz Martínez, led by the director of Internal Affairs, Víctor Contreras, attacked the rebels to try to force them to retreat.
The official, who is known to be a romantic partner of the head of the SPSC, attacked two reporters, one of whom was identified as Héctor Zavala, whom he took his cell phone to prevent him from filming the riot.
As part of the police conflict in Campeche, which has already lasted 65 days, yesterday state troops got into a fight with agents who prevented them from passing when they were preparing to demand payment of their checks; Five uniformed women were beaten.
The Morenoist federal deputy José Luis Flores Pacheco documented through videos the moment in which the agents were attacked and blamed his co-religionist, the governor of Campeche, Layda Sansores San Román.
The state prosecutor, Renato Sales Heredia, arrived at the site in the company of around 50 armed ministerial agents, who tried to seize the buses in which the rebellious police were traveling. After strong discussions, a new confrontation was about to break out.
Federal deputy Flores Pacheco and prosecutor Renato Sales argued at the entrance to the Police Academy to prevent the attacks from continuing. According to Sales, he went to the facilities to arrange for the salaries of the 65 sanctioned police officers to be paid.
There was no response to the demands for payment to the dissatisfied agents, so they retired to the official headquarters of the SPSC in order to attend to the elements who received some blows.
Five women from the Valientes group were taken to the Social Security clinic and others affected by a nervous breakdown and blood pressure problems were helped at the agency’s headquarters.
Until the closing of this edition, it has not been reported when the withheld salary will be paid to 65 elements of the little more than a thousand police officers who have rebelled since last March 16, after a failed operation in the San Francisco Kobén prison, in which they were sent without adequate protective equipment to control a riot.
At the head of the contingent were members of the Mujeres Valientes group, who were physically and sexually assaulted by the inmates, which began the police rebellion in a conflict that has now lasted 65 days.
Source: La Jornada
