“The presence of the National Guard is helping to locate situations like this quickly, to operate quickly to also provide security to Metro users, which is the main concern of the Government of Mexico City,” said Martí Batres, secretary of the of Government, who stated that four complaints have been filed for alleged “sabotage” of the Metro.
Objects on the tracks and hits to the trains
On Line 12, a gearbox on the tracks at the Ermita station was hit on January 14, one day before the reopening of the underground section.
“This track device in the Ermita section presents an atypical blow in the opposite direction to the circulation of the trains”, informed Guillermo Calderón, general director of the Metro, during a press conference.
According to the official, the trains that circulated in the section were reviewed and no element was found that could cause the box to be hit, so it was an “atypical” incident.
Meanwhile, at the Centro Médico station on Line 9, a woman threw the blades of a washing machine onto the Metro tracks, for which she was arrested by elements of the Secretariat for Citizen Security (SSC) for the crime of attacking the communication routes.
Metro personnel cut off the power to be able to remove the objects from the tracks, for which reason the service was temporarily interrupted.
On Line 3, during the early hours of that same Saturday, a train that was running between the La Raza and Potrero stations suffered a blow to the windshield of the cabin, which caused it to crash.
In a review carried out by Metro personnel, it was found that some 45 meters of low voltage cable was intentionally cut, as was the ventilation grill.
A large aluminum can was thrown onto the tracks at the Santa Anita Line 8 station on Friday, January 13, causing a short circuit; However, no one was arrested for what happened, only a call was made to users not to throw objects in the Metro facilities.
