Door to Mexico president's ceremonial palace set alight in massacre protest
Door to Mexico president's ceremonial palace set alight in massacre protest
Source: Reuters - Sun, 9 Nov 2014 06:29 GMT
MEXICO CITY, Nov 8 (Reuters) - A group of protesters set fire to the wooden door of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's ceremonial palace in Mexico City's historic city center late on Saturday, denouncing the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers.
The group, carrying torches, broke away from what had been a mostly peaceful protest demanding justice for the students, who were abducted six weeks ago and apparently murdered and incinerated by corrupt police in league with drug gang members.
Police put out the flames and enforced fencing designed to keep the protesters away from the National Palace, which was built for Hernan Cortes after the Spanish conquest and now houses Mexico's finance ministry.
Pena Nieto lives in a presidential residence across town, and was not in the palace at the time.
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