It has been a surprise, and not precisely pleasant, for all those involved. Police, the Army and the National Guard cordoned last Friday a concert of Fermin Muguruza in Mexico City to evict the public and interrupt the performance.
All tickets for the performance of Fermin Muguruza had been sold in the Multiforo Alicia, considered one of the emblematic centers of the Mexican alternative culture. When the concert last Friday, May 30, the first hour of action had begun and reached, the organization found that around two hundred troops from different forces of the order – in this case, police, army and national guard. The Basque artist had to interrupt the performance and inform the audience that the space had been cordoned off. It was urged from the stage that the hundreds of attendees did not respond to the “police provocation” to avoid any type of violence both outside and inside.
Subsequently, the surprise increased when Clara Brugada, head of government of Mexico City, and Rosa Icela Rodríguez, secretary of the Federal Government, made public statements saying that they did not know anything about that police action and that those responsible for the action would be investigated. Also, according to the newspaper El País, they recognized having “relieved some police officers.
As for the organizers of the concert, they declared that it was the first time in which “the street was taken by the Army.” In any case, there were no altercations at the exit and the eviction was made without major consequences, although there have been several Mexican political and cultural voices that have described what happened as “unjustifiable.”
