Mexico president Claudia Sheinbaum to press charges
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An unexpected on-camera moment has sent shockwaves across Mexico. President Claudia Sheinbaum was inappropriately touched in public by a strange man during a street event in Mexico City. As seen in viral footage circulating on social media,
"The kiss, the touching, is not only harassment, it is a sexual assault that — according to the penal code — is punished with 1 to 6 years in prison," Mexican journalist Carlos Jiménez said in a translation of a post on X, which included a video of the incident.
What should have been a five-minute time-saving walk from Mexico’s National Palace to the Education Ministry for President Claudia Sheinbaum has become a stomach-churning viral moment after a video captured a drunk man groping the president.