On this Wednesday morning, a group of people who were demonstrating for the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa school since 2014 in Mexico, knocked down one of the doors of the National Palace with a truck during the president's daily press conference.Andrés Manuel López Obrador(AMLO), who denounced a "provocation plan."
According to preliminary information, the security of the presidential headquarters was overwhelmed by the number of protesters who sought to interrupt the press conference, although they did not succeed.
However, inside the building there are metal fences that not only prevented the protesters from entering, but also the conference was not affected by this fact.
For now it is known that the protesters demolished the Mariana Gate of the National Palace with pipes, sticks and even a truck.
Videos of the moments of tension experienced around the venue have been released through social networks.
The protesters, accompanied by Vidulfo Rosales, who serves as lawyer for the parents of the normalista students who disappeared on September 26, 2014, were the ones who deployed to the building to have a private audience with the president.
No injuries were reported during the incident. The protesters began to leave the place after security inside the National Palace dissipated the hooded protesters using fire extinguishers.
Once the door of the National Palace was knocked down, the protesters - mostly hooded subjects - withdrew from the area around Moneda Street in the Historic Center of Mexico City.
It is known that they will return to their camps and then return to the State of Guerrero waiting to have an audience with the president. AMLO, despite refusing to speak with them, did not stop his conference.
"It is a movement against us [...] it is a very clear plan of provocation"said López Obrador when questioned by journalists about what was happening outside the venue.
The relatives of the disappeared, accompanied by their lawyer, activists, students and sympathizers have carried out different mobilizations in Mexico City.
They have also held a sit-in in Zócalo (central square) right in front of the National Palace to demand that they be received by López Obrador.
"The undersecretary" of the Interior will attend to them, said the president, denouncing that the lawyers and activists who accompany the parents "seek political ends."
"They would like us to respond violently, we are not going to do it, we are not repressors [...]. The door will be fixed and there is no problem," the president added shortly before concluding his conference.
The students of the Ayotzinapa rural school disappeared between September 26 and 27, 2014 in the city of Iguala, in the state of Guerrero (southern), one of the most violent in the country due to clashes between drug trafficking cartels.
The first official version of the previous government (2012-2018) indicated that the students were detained by Iguala police in agreement with the Guerreros Unidos cartel, who would have murdered them and then disappeared their bodies.
López Obrador has committed to reviewing the investigations in depth and finding the young people.
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