Encapuchados attack police during march by Matanza de Tlatelolco

Videos show how the hooded fire fired business, looted others and attacked elements of the Ministry of Citizen Security (SSC).

As every year, hundreds of people gathered in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco to commemorate and remember the victims of the historical passage of repression of youth, perpetrated by the Mexican government, headed by former President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.

Around 4:00 p.m., the groups began to prepare to march towards the Zocalo of Mexico City, whose established route was the central axis Lázaro Cárdenas, May 5 and the Plaza de la Constitución.

Much of the contingents advanced in accordance with the programmed and took the opportunity to demand justice for the disappearance of 43 the students of the Rural Normal Raúl Isidro Burgos, 11 years after the facts.

Some of the attendees also waved the Palestine flags and demanded the cessation of attacks and bombings to Gaza, as well as a request to the Mexican government for the breaking of relations with Israel.

During the passage of the contingents, a group of approximately 50 young, embozados, self -denominated “Black Block”, broke the glass of Plaza Tlatelolco, located on Ricardo Flores Magón Avenue, as well as in Banking branches of Inbursa and BBVA abroad this site.

They also managed to enter a 3B store that is located in the central axis Lázaro Cárdenas between Paseo de la Reforma and Ricardo Flores Magón to empty the shelves. They broke the curtain of a Comex store where they stole paint aerosols, which were used to perform pints along the route.

At the crossroads of central axis and mine, as well as in the Plaza de la Constitución at the height of the portals, groups of anarchists and hooded men had a confrontation with elements of the Ministry of Citizen Security, where they launched firecrackers, Molotov bombs and cohetones against the uniformed.

The clashes extended to the Zócalo of the capital.