Indigenous traders were allegedly evicted with violence from the Zócalo in Mexico City

Social media users shared a video in which they can observe the violent intervention of capital police officers in the Zócalo of the Historic Center, with the aim of clearing it from informal commerce; however, the injustice was recorded.

In the video you can see that several patrillas arrived in the vicinity of the Zócalo in Mexico City, in front of the National Palace, where President Andrés Manuel López Obrador currently resides.

There are also cries from the people involved in the altercation, as well as voices of people passing by and demanding the current one from the capital's police, blaming the actions on the Fourth Transformation.

The policemen act vigorously and even violently against the citizens who sold their things in the Plaza de la Constitución, and throw all the merchandise into their vans, with bags included, to proceed to take it away.

According to social networks, these are indigenous merchants who came to the area to sell part of their handicrafts and other cultural shows from their places of residence, until they were operated on by the SSC.

So far, no response or explanation has been obtained from the Ministry of Citizen Security through its Department of Communication, Secretary Omar García Harfuch or the Head of Government of Mexico City.

This is despite the fact that they have been labelled in various critics and insults that were dedicated to them through the social network Twitter, with the aim of obtaining some justification for the events that occurred in the Zócalo.

The only report that was obtained from downtown Mexico City was the prevention of a robbery by passerby in the Cuauhtémoc mayor's office, capital police officers arrested a man who, apparently, with a sharp object, stole a woman's belongings.

The events occurred while the uniformed men carried out security tours on Rebolledo Street on the corner of the Lazaro Cardenas Central Axis, in the Obrera colony, when a citizen immediately requested the support of some agents.

“The woman reported that, moments before, a subject got out of a taxi-type car and physically intimidated her, threatened her with a knife and disowned her of her personal belongings, and then fled the place,” they clarified in a statement.

Immediately and with the fiscal characteristics of the probable perpetrator, the police carried out a search and location device until, streets later intercepted him and requested that he descend for a security review, in accordance with the protocol of police action.

After his arrest, according to information from the authorities, two gold-colored chains, cash and a knife approximately 15 centimetres long were confiscated.

As a result, the man was arrested aware of his rights under the law and placed at the disposal of the official of the Public Prosecutor's Office concerned. They also confirmed that the detainee has two investigation kits for theft of accessories in 2019 and 2020, one more in 2019 for family violence.

They also found that he was admitted to the Mexico City Penitentiary System in 2014 for the crime of Cover-up for gang reception and extortion, as well as in 2020 for qualified robbery.

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