The alleged attempted kidnapping of a student and the disappearance of a teenage girl have set off alarms in women’s groups that are organizing on social networks to find strategies to feel safe.
Jazmín Stengel- Chapala. The Facebook post of an alleged attempted kidnapping of a student of a language academy and the report of the disappearance of a teenage girl in Chapala, has motivated a group of local women to ask the authorities to guarantee their safety.
The women have organized themselves to collect signatures and ask the authorities for the signage of safe spaces in stores, public and private transport, free courses for self-defense and advertising on the lakeshore to make society aware of the violence to which they are exposed in their daily lives. Several measures are already active in Chapala,sbut the women say they need more.
The women also ask for counseling and protection for victims, free psychological care, a hotline for emergencies and the activation of the purple patrol of female offices.
However some of the measures they ask for have been active in Chapala since the beginning of this administration. For example, there is a purple patrol with six trained female officers that respond to public safety emergency numbers 24 hours a day. The Women’s Institute, located at 69 Niños Héroes Street in the municipality, provides free counseling and follow-up to victims.
The cases that have been reported include the April 22 Facebook post of the private language school People Bilingual Training that one of its students was grabbed by men handing out flyers at the Chapala bus station, who tried to pull her into a parked car in front of the station. The student was helped by a woman selling vegetables and managed to escape.
According to the publications and victims consulted by Laguna, many young women have been chased or stalked by men in cars.
Although one of the threats have been reported to Chapala Public Security or formal complaints filed in the Public Prosecutor’s Office about kidnapping attempts or pursuits of women, Chapala Public Security Commissioner Sergio Conzuelo Ramirez has already ordered stepped-up security strategies and increased citizen information to work on the prevention of crime against women.
Jalisco Strategic Coordinator of Public Security Ricardo Sanchez Beruben said he was not aware of any alleged attempt to kidnap women, since none of the alleged victims have formally filed a complaint.
Sanchez Beruben said that the audio messages that circulated a few days ago warning of the kidnapping of women by criminal groups have circulated in different states of Mexico since 2019.
Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan
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