After eviction, feminists burn DH visit office in Ecatepec

Once again, groups of feminists from various collectives returned to the offices of the Ecatepec based Human Rights Inspector's Office entered by force and burned documents. In the morning, the 11 arrested at dawn this Friday and sent to the Atizapán Justice Center returned after being released to collect their belongings. In the place they claimed that they did not have their voter credentials, credit cards, debit cards and their cell phones.

The women said, they had found their belongings on the street, despite the fact that the negotiation after being released at 10:00 in the morning was that they could return for their things, so that on the site some of them kicked and hit the doors of the property.

Later, another group of women returned some of them hooded attacked the building, also launched threats against state public officials and Codhem employees. Around 7:00 p.m., another group of them returned to the facilities, at the scene they threw stones at the windows, shouted slogans, then entered the place and later black smoke began to come out of one of the windows.

Neighbors were alerted because flames came out of one of the windows of the building and when the visitaduría was in a residential area, they said they were in danger. Minutes later, everyone involved reportedly withdrew from the site. The Ecatepec city council reported that the fire inside the building was controlled.

For its part, via Twitter, Codhem said it condemned the acts of which the facilities and property of the Vice Province were subjected severe damage to the patrimony of the Mexican people, which impacts the protection, promotion and defense service of the human rights in 15 municipalities.

Yesterday, a group of feminist women took the building of the visitaduría demanding the dismissal of the Special Prosecutor for Gender Crimes, Sandra Pacheco and Griselda Barrientos, head of the Institute for Women in Ecatepec. At dawn on Friday, the public prosecutor's office evicted the property and detained 11 women and two men, in addition they took seven children, all presented before the Public Ministry of Atizapán, where hours later they were released.