( Spanish) – The leader of street vendors, local deputy representative and LGBTQ community activist Diana Sánchez Barrios was injured in an armed attack in broad daylight against three people in the streets of the Historic Center of Mexico City, in an incident where a man died. accompanied, authorities in the Mexican capital reported on Thursday.
According to the Secretariat of Citizen Security of the Mexican capital and the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City, in the incident an armed subject opened fire on a woman and two men, who were injured and taken to hospitals for treatment. medical. They indicated that the subject fled the scene after carrying out the attack.
Regarding the victims, the capital’s Secretariat of Citizen Security said in a press conference that “one of the injured, 32 years old, lost his life in the hospital due to a gunshot wound to the shoulder blade; which has already been made known to the agent of the Public Ministry for the investigations of the case.”
He added that the other two injured people remain hospitalized and are stable, after having undergone various surgeries. The hospitals, where these people are treated, are under the protection of the Mexico City Police and the Investigative Police of the Attorney General’s Office.
The capital’s Citizen Security Secretariat also reported that it deployed an operation in the area to find those responsible, but at the moment no arrests have been reported.
In statements to the press, upon leaving the hospital where her daughter Diana is being treated, Alejandra Barrios, also a leader of street vendors, credited the attack to a criminal group that operates in the Mexican capital.
has requested information from the capital’s Security Secretariat and the Attorney General’s Office, but without receiving a response.
In his message to the media, the head of the capital’s Security Secretariat, Pablo Vázquez Camacho, pointed out that together with the Attorney General’s Office and the Government of Mexico City they are exhausting all the lines of investigation they have to find the victims. responsible, and guarantee that there is no impunity in the events.
The presidency of the Board of Directors of the Congress of Mexico City condemned the attack of which Sánchez Barrios was a victim, and asked the corresponding authorities for investigations leading to the arrest of those found responsible.
“We condemn any act of violence committed against any legislator, congressional staff and citizens in general,” the local Legislature said in a statement.
Activists in favor of the rights of the LGBTQ community also condemned the attack against Sánchez Barrios and asked the corresponding authorities for justice and the prompt arrest of those responsible.
Diana Sánchez Barrios is a leader of street vendors in the Historic Center of Mexico City, and founder of ProDiana, a civil organization in defense of the rights and non-discrimination of the LGBTQ community and vulnerable groups, according to information on its official website at Facebook.
She is the daughter of Alejandra Barrios Richard, a veteran and important leader of street merchants in the Mexican capital.
Diana Sánchez Barrios is currently a substitute deputy in the Congress of Mexico City for her sister Silvia, who belonged to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), but who recently joined the ruling party Morena.
In 2014, Diana Sánchez Barrios promoted the rectification of birth certificates for transgender people before the Legislative Assembly of the then Federal District.
Another of its advances was to promote initiatives such as the Non-salaried Workers Law, seeking to guarantee labor rights for street vendors.
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