Overview

• Hidalgo prosecutors have opened two criminal investigations—one for possible lesions by the professor and another for family violence by the student—after a video of the classroom assault went viral.
• The Universidad Politécnica de Tulancingo has suspended both Manuel and Professor Ángel pending a decision by its Academic Council on disciplinary measures.
• Daniel Fragoso Torres, the state’s subsecretary for higher education, said the student will face permanent expulsion under the institution’s zero-tolerance policy for violence.
• The university is providing psychological counseling and legal advice to those affected as part of its protocol for campus incidents.
• The assault followed multiple student complaints that the professor had engaged in mocking and nicknaming, raising questions about how prior harassment reports were handled.