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PAN files complaint with FGR over Mexico City riots

The PAN party filed a complaint with Mexico's Attorney General's Office, accusing authorities of abusing force against protesters and demanding an investigation into the funding and organization of the 'black block,' which they believe is linked to the MORENA party.


PAN files complaint with FGR over Mexico City riots

The leadership of the National Action Party (PAN) filed a complaint on Monday with the Attorney General's Office (FGR) over the riots and the detention of 18 young people during the march of November 15 in Mexico City, convened by the so-called 'Generation Z', which left a balance of 20 civilians and 100 police officers injured. In a message published on its official X account, PAN stated: 'We filed a complaint with the FGR against the abuse of power and the excessive use of public force against young people who were peacefully protesting on #15N'. Additionally, the party demanded that the federal authority investigate 'the operation and financing of the so-called 'black block', from which violent acts that sought to sabotage and discredit the reason for the demonstration originated'. The national president of PAN, Jorge Romero Herrera, told the media that the complaint aims to determine who gave the order to 'repress' the protesters and warned: 'What happened on November 15 was very serious. Take the hoods off the violent ones. Take the hoods off their leaders'. 'If this government thinks that from the opposition we are going to bet that they make us forget, today we tell them that we will never forget,' he said. On his part, Roberto Gil Zuarth, spokesperson for the National Executive Committee of PAN, affirmed that 'someone is behind these groups that cause riots in Mexico City, someone leads them, someone finances them, someone recruits them and someone gives them instructions'. 'We present this complaint before the FGR because we want to activate the federal competence of an investigation related to a possible affectation to freedom of expression and the fundamental human rights of people,' he said. 'What do we ask for? That they remove the hood from the way they recruit our young people to cause harm to other young people,' he added. The PAN spokesperson, Jorge Triana, pointed out that there are indications that the actions of the so-called 'black block' could be induced from MORENA: 'What we do have is a well-founded suspicion and very clear indications and we want it to be investigated at this moment is that the black block is not a black block, it is a guinda block. There is no black block, it is a guinda block, that it be very clear'. In this sense, he indicated that the alleged induction of this block by MORENA dates back to the sexenio of former President Enrique Peña Nieto.