surveillance in the Collective Transport System (STC) The Mexico City Metro was reinforced this Thursday with thousands of members of the National Guard, after recent incidents in this means of transport that the capital authorities have described as “out of the ordinary.”
The decision announced this Thursday by the head of government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaumoccurs after Saturday, January 7, two trains collided in a tunnel on Line 3 of the Metro between the stations of the Race Y Paddock. The accident left a young woman dead and 106 people injured.
The contingent of 6,060 troops was deployed in accesses, platforms and other facilities of the STC that mobilizes some four million people daily in the capital of the country.
“They are not armed, their objective is to guarantee the safety of users,” Claudia Sheinbaum said on her Twitter account.
The elements of the National Guard are already arriving at the Metro stations. They are not armed, their objective is to guarantee the safety of the users in this transport system.
My priority will always be your safety. pic.twitter.com/kjjxYXwC7p
— Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum (@Claudiashein)
January 12, 2023
The agents wear gray uniforms and caps, unlike their colleagues stationed in areas where organized crime operates, who wear camouflage and carry long weapons.
The National Guard It was created in May 2019 at the initiative of López Obrador as a civil institution in charge of carrying out public security tasks to replace the now-defunct Federal Police.
Since last Saturday there have been at least five other problems in the Metro, two of which involved wheels on the wagons, said the head of government, without giving further details.
The impact of the two convoys on Saturday morning is added to other events in which the integrity of the users and workers of the Subway has been at risk, as was the collapse of the elevated section of the line 12near the Olivos station, which caused the death of 26 people.
(With information from AFP.)
