Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has filed a complaint after a man allegedly groped the premiere in Public.
As per details, Claudia Sheinbaum said that “I decided to press charges because this is something I experienced as a woman something all women in our country experience”.
Sheinbaum said that “If this happens to the president, where does that leave all the young women in our country.” Mexico’s first female president added that “No man has the right to abuse women’s personal space.”
According to Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada, the man was arrested overnight and is in custody at the Sex Crimes Investigation Unit.
The president said that this was not the first time she had experienced harassment. Throughout her career, Sheinbaum has been candid about the harassment she experienced in the past.
In 2021, as Mexico City mayor, she shared a video for International Women’s Day in which she recalls being harassed on public transportation at the age of 12 and being harassed by a professor when she was a student.
President Claudia Sheinbaum groped
A video that went viral online shows a middle-aged man putting his arm around Sheinbaum, touching her chest and attempting to kiss her. She moves his hands away before a member of her staff steps between them.
The president’s security detail did not appear to be near her in the moment. Sheinbaum said the man appeared to be drunk.
She also blasted Mexican newspaper Reforma for publishing images of the man groping her, saying she considered it a “re-victimization” and that it crossed an ethical line.
“The use of the image is also a crime,” Sheinbaum said, pointing to legislation against digital violence. “I am waiting for an apology from the newspaper.”
The federal government’s Women’s Ministry, created under Sheinbaum, issued a statement on Tuesday encouraging women to report violence against them, but asking media outlets “not to reproduce content that violates the integrity of women.”
