Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum is pressing chargesagainst a man who she said was "drunk" and harassed her on Tuesday, calling the incident "an assault on all women", according to Reuters and CNN.
Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada said that the man was arrested overnight.
The incident took place on Tuesday (Nov. 4, local time) when a man broke through a crowd of people greeting Sheinbaum in Mexico City and appeared to grope her, according to viral footage of the incident.
The video showed a man approach Sheinbaum. He appeared to touch her breast, and attempt to kiss her while bystandersin the central neighborhood ofZócalowatched. The incident ended when one of her top aides, Juan José Ramírez Mendoza, intervened.
"If this happens to the president, where does that leave all the young women in our country," said Sheinbaum, Mexico's first female president. "No man has the right to abuse women's personal space."
"I decided to press charges because this is something I experienced as a woman — something all women in our country experience," she said.
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