Overview

• Mexico City’s prosecutor has opened multiple case files to identify participants in assaults, looting and arson that disrupted the Tlatelolco commemoration.
• President Claudia Sheinbaum condemned the violence as a deliberate provocation aimed at portraying her government as repressive and pointed to a contentious post by Claudio X. González.
• The SSC reports 94 police and 29 civilians injured, with five officers still hospitalized after attacks that included stones, tools and Molotov cocktails.
• Security deployment grew from about 500 to roughly 1,000 officers as clashes escalated, yet authorities reported just one immediate arrest linked to a jewelry-store robbery.
• SSC personnel demonstrated outside the National Palace seeking command accountability, while business groups detailed significant losses across the Historic Center.