Gas jets at protesters in the Zócalo of CDMX Photo: Dhasia Wezka

the week of 8m has ended. He International Women’s Day It was the date that called for demonstrations and expressions of resistance to violence and to the experiences with which women coexist on a daily basis and the the valley of mexicomore precisely the Mexico City, attended a monumental march which, in purple and green resisted the relentless violence that punishes women in the country.

According Mexico government data one was counted Participation of approximately 90,000 women Ready to go and also -according to social media users- there were clashes between demonstrators and elements of the citizen security secretariat as well as alleged attempts at repression on their part.

One such public complaint was filed by the content creator Dhasia Wezka who used your account Twitter exhibit an act of police violence that he suffered during the demonstrations.

“At the exact moment a policeman attacked me with a stick and I was just taking pictures. If he had pierced my throat or my eye, would it have been my fault? did I provoke it? did I hurt him? I was just with my camera.” mis.

Dhasia Weska claims she was attacked by SSC during 8M protests while taking photos in CDMX's Zócalo Photo: Twitter screenshot @DhasiaWezka
Dhasia Weska claims she was attacked by SSC during 8M protests while taking photos in CDMX’s Zócalo Photo: Twitter screenshot @DhasiaWezka

The audiovisuals that Cart unveiled occurred in the Mexico City ZocaloOr The National Palace was shielded by steel walls there behind of this wall is where there were SSC agents who apparently used suppression methods in front of the expressions of protest of the demonstrators who gathered in the plate of the Zócalo.

From tear gas to physical violence are some of the facts that the assistants note at the count of the 8mbecause government secretary Martí Batres assured there was a white balance in the mass protests fed up on the part of women in the face of the violence that plagues the country in terms of gender.

In the information that Dhasia she shared on Twitter, she pointed out that she was taking pictures with her camera when a police officer attacked her with a rod, the videographer manages to bend down.

Content Creator ducks to avoid being hit with a rod in 8M demo in CDMX

Later we appreciate how The young woman slips her phone into a crack between the fences that have been posted near the National Palace forks where the SSC aide is seen holding the rod he used to attack protesters that they were trying to knock down the wall and that’s what the young woman was able to capture.

Content creator shows police officer who attacked protesters with rod during 8M protests in CDMX

exclusively for GlobeLiveMedia Mexico, The driver reflected on her version of events and recounted how she realized the security elements allegedly had sharp devices.

“This time they touched my rods. They pull them out through the holes or gratings that the fences have to poke us at and they’re so fast you don’t even know what pricked you, when a girl was on the fence putting her sign up so the gas wouldn’t didn’t get thrown at us, from one moment to the next she was crouching down in pain, that’s when I realized she had been pricked with something, wanting to see what had caused that injury on his body, I ran towards the fence with my camera and that’s when I noticed the canes they were carrying,” he said.

By making known their testimony, the followers of the creator They pointed out that these violent repression attempts would also have happened in other places in Mexico such as Monterrey, Morelia and Tlaxcala. the more sites there are.

Internet users tell Dhasia Weska about acts of repression during 8M protests in Mexico.  Photo: Twitter screenshot @WendyBombshell
Internet users tell Dhasia Weska about acts of repression during 8M protests in Mexico. Photo: Twitter screenshot @WendyBombshell

“It is true that the police carry knives, weapons, sticks and tear gas, they hit us, make fun of and take advantage of the situation (…)”, continued the young woman who confirmed that the SSC manipulates objects to attack protesters as shown in the pictures you posted on Twitter.

Wezka captured an element of the SSC who attacked protesters with a rod as part of 8M in the Zócalo of CDMX Photo: Twitter @DhasiaWezka and courtesy Dhasia Wezka for GlobeLiveMedia
Wezka captured an element of the SSC who attacked protesters with a rod as part of 8M in the Zócalo of CDMX Photo: Twitter @DhasiaWezka and courtesy Dhasia Wezka for GlobeLiveMedia

almost accumulating 21 million followersthe videographer acknowledged that she has a wide-ranging platform, also network users They delineated that this situation may have happened to other protesters who do not have spaces for wide dissemination. “Yo I have a voice to show the reality, the attacks and the protected and uniformed police who laugh while hurting us. he claimed.

He president López Obrador assured during his morning conference on March 9 that no means of repression had been used to the demonstrators who were present throughout Mexico, however, this remark was made in response to the question of the Mexico.

The SSC uses gas against protesters present in the Zócalo of the capital on March 8, 2023 Photo: Courtesy Dhasia Wezka for GlobeLiveMedia
The SSC uses gas against protesters present in the Zócalo of the capital on March 8, 2023 Photo: Courtesy Dhasia Wezka for GlobeLiveMedia

The day March 7, we asked the federal chief executive the reason for placing the fences at buildings and monuments and this one He pointed to conservative groups as the architects of sending provocateurs: Why put up the fence? Because they are very violent, the right is always very authoritarian and violent (…) They are able to infiltrate vandals. What they want is to destroy the Palace, they take it, so that there is a note,” he said. And about national palace He insisted: “It is 500 years old. This is our story. (…) How not to take care of this Palace which belongs to the people?

Dhasia questioned the use of fences for the protection of buildings and monuments: “We continue to live in a country where it is more important to take care of a wall or a monument than to take care of its women”.

contrasting her experience and that of thousands of women who attended the march with the words of AMLO, Cart He concluded: “No war, no revolution has been won by asking for things the right way. If we don’t make noise, no one will hear us.”

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