Protests grow at UNAM for alleged rape of a young man from CCH

Fernando Camacho Servin

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday October 22, 2022, p. 13

Students from the College of Sciences and Humanities (CCH) South and the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), protested the sexual assault that a student from the high school campus would have suffered last Monday, at the time that the highest house of studies repudiated the attack and assured that it has accompanied it since the facts were known.

Around 6:00 p.m., students demonstrated at the CCH facilities to condemn the rape of their partner and set fire to some offices. Similarly, they set fire to school stationery and furniture.

At night, UNAM employees reported that the fire had already been controlled and that there were no injuries. They also pointed out that the campus was not taken by the students, which would resume activities next Monday.

Earlier, at 2:20 p.m., a group of Philosophy and Letters students blocked Avenida Insurgentes Sur for 40 minutes at the height of the Rectory Tower, also in protest at the report of sexual assault at the CCH Sur, which would be the second in that school in more than a month, according to the protesters.

The young people, who had previously taken the direction of the faculty, they were placed on the south-north direction lane, holding up a banner with the phrase CCH South violates and covers up. we demand justice.

▲ South campus high school students burned down some offices; at night, employees of the National University reported that the fire had been controlled and that there were no injuries.Photo the day

With their faces covered, they shouted slogans against the sexist and patriarchal violence that allowed the attack that allegedly occurred on October 17 in one of the bathrooms. Shortly after 3:00 p.m., they left the scene without major incidents.

In relation to the complaints, the UNAM issued a statement in which it stated that any violent situation against a member of their community is unacceptable, but much more so when the victim is a woman and the crime occurs within university facilities.

assured that has accompanied the student and her family from the moment the reprehensible event became known. The General Directorate of Legal Affairs and the University Rights Ombudsman have provided them with psychological and legal assistance..

Also, he reported that the rector Enrique Graue Wiechers has given instructions so that the central administration continues to provide assistance to the student and her family, and so that the institution carries out an in-depth investigation of the facts, as well as the actions undertaken by the campus address.

On the other hand, CCH Vallejo students marched from the Monument to the Revolution to their school to demand justice for a cat that lived on the campus that was allegedly tortured and killed on the premises on September 28.