Overview

• At a Sept. 3 news conference, Deputy Leticia (Claudia) Garfias detailed an Aug. 12 assault at her district office in Cuanalán, Acolman.
• She alleges more than 50 armed individuals carried out the attack under the direction of local deputy Osvaldo Cortés Contreras with support from Mayor Blanca Guadalupe Sánchez Osorio.
• She says the deputy’s chauffeur assaulted her physically and sexually during the incident.
• She reports serious injuries to her children and an advisor, including a pulverization injury at the base of the eye globe.
• She filed a complaint with the FGR and publicly held the named officials responsible for any future harm as federal and state authorities review the case; no public response from the accused has been reported.