Protesters Clash with Mexico City Riot Police over Student Massacre
TEHRAN (Tasanim) - Mexican riot police suppressed a violent student protest which tried to storm Mexico City's airport. The crowd raged as part of a national strike over the alleged government involvement in the “disappearance” of 43 students almost two month ago.
Police engaged some 300 masked demonstrators who threw Molotov cocktails and shot fireworks at law enforcement lines outside the capital’s Benito Juárez international airport.
To block youths from marching onto the airport, hundreds of riot police were deployed to surround the angry crowd chanting “We want them alive!” Young people began attacking the police blocking their passage. Police, armed with anti-riot shields, charged at protesters.
The confrontation along Fray Servando two kilometers from the international airport lasted about half an hour, RT reported.
While no one was injured in the clashes, according to police, RT’s Ruptly reports one protester suffered a broken leg in the clashes, which saw over 500 officers respond with tear gas and water cannons.
Mexico city is once again engulfed in chaos as three marches in Mexico City are taking place which started at 17:00 local time (23:00 GMT), and are due converge on the central square, or Zocalo, on the 114th anniversary of the day the Mexican Revolution to overthrow dictator Porfirio Diaz began in 1910, Reuters reports.
More than 30 Mexican cities are participating in the national strike demonstrations. However, the largest are happening in Mexico City and in the state of Guerrero, where the crime took place in late September.
