Two bodyguards of local representative Elizabeth Montoya (Citizen Movement) face a disciplinary process by the Internal Control Body of the state Public Security Secretariat. The reason: they entered a bar in uniform during a World Cup match between Mexico and Ecuador.
The Secretary of Public Security, Sinuhé Téllez López, confirmed the process. The elements were assigned to protect the legislator, who suffered an armed attack on January 28. Following that incident, her security was extended to her husband and daughters.
“The elements committed an irregularity when they entered a bar in uniform to take care of a family member,” declared Téllez.
What happened that night?
In the establishment, at the end of the game, several attendees shouted “Morena out.” Among them, as identified by licensed deputy Teresa Guerra Ochoa—a candidate for state coordination of the Fourth Transformation—was Montoya’s husband, accompanied by the two bodyguards dressed in uniform.
Montoya clarified that her husband did not participate in the shouting or encourage it. She defended that the security protocols are defined by the assigned elements themselves, and that her husband has the right to escort when he goes out alone.
The attack against Montoya and her benchmate Sergio Torres Félix, which occurred in January, caused the deputy an irreversible eye injury. Despite the sanctioning process against the bodyguards, Secretary Téllez assured that the protection of the deputy will continue without changes. The sanctions are only for the elements for wearing the uniform in an illegal place.
