Drunk man arrested for groping Mexican President on the streets: ‘What will happen to all women’

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was groped and attempted to be kissed by a man while greeting supporters in Mexico City. On Wednesday, the president stated that she had filed criminal charges against the man after learning that he had continued to harass other women after groping her.The incident took place on Tuesday while Mexico’s first female president was walking to a public event, France 24 reported. According to the now-viral videos, the drunken man approached her from behind, put his arm around her shoulder and then touched her chest and hip with his other hand while attempting to kiss her.

Sheinbaum’s security team immediately stepped in and removed the individual. Despite the event, Sheinbaum was cordial to the man, offering to take a picture with him and patting him on the back.

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“This person approached, completely intoxicated…it wasn’t until I saw the videos later that I realised what had really happened,” Sheinbaum said.

The man involved in the incident was later arrested and charged with ‘harassment’, the president’s office confirmed to AFP. During a press conference on Wednesday, Sheinbaum revealed that she decided to press charges against the man after discovering the man continued to harass other women.

“No man has the right to violate that space. My view is, if I don’t file a complaint, what will happen to other Mexican women? If they do this to the president, what will happen to all women in our country?” she was quoted as saying by DW News.

“I decided to press charges because this is something that I experienced as a woman, but that we as women experience in our country. I have experienced it before, when I wasn’t president, when I was a student,” she added.

The Secretariat for Women, which is part of Sheinbaum’s administration, criticised the incident, stating that proximity to the public “cannot be used as an excuse to invade someone’s personal space or make physical contact without consent.”

“Unfortunately, no woman is exempt from sexual harassment in our country. Men must understand that these acts are not only violent but criminal,” it said, as reported by CNN.

The incident has reignited debates about women’s safety in Mexico, where approximately 70% of women aged 15 and above experience at least one incident of sexual harassment in their lifetime, according to United Nations data.