A group of demonstrators protesting the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014 knocked down a door to the country’s presidential palace, according to videos from television stations on Wednesday morning.
The protesters kicked down the door using a white pickup truck from Mexico’s state electrical company, while the President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was giving his daily morning press conference inside.
Policemen at the scene used tear gas to disperse the group and law enforcement erected barriers from within the palace in order to foil attempts from the protesters in entering the building.
When asked about the incident during the press conference, Lopez Obrador said he was not going to repress the protest because the government is still investigating the case of the missing students, who disappeared in one of the country’s most notorious violent incidents.
“The door will be fixed and there will be no problem,” said the president, who said the protesters would meet with members of his government.
“But what they want is to provoke,” he added, noting that the protesters were being manipulated by rights groups that were against his government and did not want the truth about the case to come out.