Mexico President Sheinbaum presses charges after being groped by man in public
President calls for tougher action on sexual harassment in Mexico after she was groped while greeting supporters
What should have been a five-minute time-saving walk from Mexico’s National Palace to the Education Ministry for President Claudia Sheinbaum has become a symbol of what Mexican women face every day after a video captured a drunk man groping the country’s first woman president.
On Wednesday, gender violence catapulted to the highest-profile platform, and Sheinbaum used her daily press briefing to say that she had pressed charges against the man.
She also called on states to scrutinise their laws and procedures to make it easier for women to report such assaults and said Mexicans needed to hear a “loud and clear, no, women’s personal space must not be violated”.
Sheinbaum said she felt a responsibility to press charges for all Mexican women.
“I decided to press charges because this is something that I experienced as a woman, but that we as women experience in our country,” she said.