Mexico City (AP) – annual march dedicated to memory 1968 Revenge Protesting students in the capital of Mexico were overshadowed on Thursday from the requirements to put an end to the humanitarian crisis halfway around the world in Gaza.
March 2, which was regularly used not only to remember this earlier massacre, but also Mexico Tens of thousands of other missing and abuse of power, this year there was a complete Palestinian flag and signs requiring the end Israeli military operations in gasField
“We feel sympathy not only for ours, for those for which our grandparents died, but for all men and women around the world who suffer from the fact that we once suffered,” said Edgar Lopez, a 23-year-old student of economics, who went with the Palestinian flag on his back.
Protesters passed from Tlatelolco Plaza, where in 1968 Mexican troops attacked students The requirement is the end of the militarization of Mexico and more freedom, leaving the never -established number of death, which is believed to be hundreds, to the central square of the capital.
While most of the march was peaceful, some groups rang out the species showcases and threw objects, including Molotov cocktails, in hundreds of police guarding the National Palace.
According to officials of Mexico City, the march brought 10,000 people, and the authorities said that about 350, which were disguised and acted aggressively.
AP journalists saw at least three other journalists attacked the police and protesters, and the police officer drove into a corner and attacked the protesters.
The local press reported at least six wounded police, but the authorities did not immediately confirm this number.
A smaller spontaneous protest escaped in the capital last night after Israel detained members Flotilla carrying humanitarian aidThe field among the detainees were six Mexicans.
Mexico President Claudia Shainbaum previously stated on Thursday that her administration demanded their direct repatriation.
