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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was groped by a man while greeting supporters — but she kept her cool and took care of the situation herself.

The creepy incident occurred Tuesday in Mexico City’s downtown district, where Sheinbaum was meeting with some of her constituents on the street in broad daylight as the man — or perv — came up behind her.

A witness shot video of their ensuing interaction, which shows the man leaning in to kiss Sheinbaum while putting his hands on her waist.

With an awkward smile, Sheinbaum spins around to him and pushes his hand away, but she tells him not to worry. Then she turns back around and starts talking with her non-frisky fans, and everything returns to normal.

The Associated Press reported the man appeared to be inebriated. As for Sheinbaum’s security team, the AP said they were nowhere to be seen in the clip that went viral on social media.

Mexico’s president was groped by a man as she mingled with citizens on the streets of the capital.

The man, who appears visibly drunk, tried to kiss Claudia Sheinbaum on the neck and embrace her from behind. She gently pushed him away and turned to face him, where she was heard to say: “Don’t worry.”

A government official then stepped in and placed himself between the two of them, before ushering Ms Sheinbaum away.

State police later confirmed that the man had been arrested.

The incident took place in a week where the president has had to repeatedly address questions about political violence following the public assassination of a mayor in western Michoacan state during Day of the Dead festivities.

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Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, has been groped by a man as she mingled with citizens on the streets of Mexico City, raising questions about the lack of presidential security and the level of sexual harassment faced by the country’s women.

A video of the incident on Tuesday shows a visibly drunk man trying to kiss the president on the neck and embrace her from behind, as she removes his hands and turns to face him, before a government official steps in and places himself between them.

As the man is steered away, Sheinbaum can be seen smiling stiffly and saying: “Don’t worry.”

State police later confirmed that the man had been arrested.

Commentators said the incident showed that no woman is immune to sexual harassment in Mexico.

“Even if you’re the president, any guy believes he has the right to touch you,” said Catalina Ruiz-Navarro, a journalist for the feminist outlet Volcánicas. “When they ask what the patriarchy is – this is it.”

But the incident also highlighted the broader security risk that Sheinbaum faces on the street, given that her security detail was not clearly visible in the video and it took seconds for anyone to intervene.

It comes just days after Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez, a popular mayor, was killed at the Day of the Dead celebrations in Uruapan, in the state of Michoacán, by a gunman who shot him seven times at close range before being killed himself.

In the months prior, Manzo Rodríguez had publicly appealed to Sheinbaum on social media for help to confront criminal groups in the region.

Manzo Rodríguez was only the latest official to be killed in Mexico, where 37 candidates were killed on the campaign trail before the election in June 2024, and another 10 municipal presidents have been killed since Sheinbaum’s government began on 1 October.

Even though it is local authorities that are most frequently targeted in Mexico, high-level officials are not exempt from risk.

In 1994, the presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta was gunned down at a rally in the border city of Tijuana. More recently, in 2020, the Jalisco cartel tried to assassinate Omar García Harfuch, Sheinbaum’s current security minister, riddling his convoy with bullets in the middle of Mexico City.

Sheinbaum herself had a security scare last year while campaigning in the state of Chiapas, when masked men stopped her vehicle to ask her to address the violence in the state, before letting her move on.

So far, Sheinbaum has kept the habit of her popular predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who mingled with crowds and preferred a lighter degree of security – but such an incident might cause her to reconsider.

“Hopefully [the presidency will press charges], and the president will send a clear message: no man has the right to kiss or touch a woman without her consent,” wrote Alejandra Escobar, editorial director of Etcétera, a Mexican magazine, on X. “May this also serve as an example for [her assistants]: it is not acceptable for her to be so exposed.”

A man who appeared to be intoxicated groped and attempted to kiss Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum before an official intervened in Mexico City on Tuesday. The disturbing scene unfolded in the historic downtown area of the city while the president was interacting with the public on the street.

The incident captured on phone has since gone viral on social media, raising serious concerns about her security detail. The video, which is widely circulating on social media, shows a man who appeared to be intoxicated, approaching her from behind, grabbing her, and attempting to kiss her while she was speaking to citizens.

For several moments, no security staff intervened, allowing the man to approach uncomfortably close before officials eventually pulled him away. Sheinbaum, appearing tense yet composed, calmly brushed his hands aside, saying softly, “Don’t worry.”

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The incident has sparked anger and renewed concerns among netizens about presidential security, particularly as Sheinbaum is known for her open, people-first approach, much like her mentor and predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Netizens react to the viral video

One of the netizens reacted to the video, “They need to lock him up. Piece of shit probably does that all the time to people without security. Why are they laughing.”

“This is disgusting. Arrest that disrespectful man. Even as president women are harassed. Wtf, “the next added.

Another said, “The guy was probably drinking. You can hear him at the end youuu are veryyy hot.”

The next also said,” The security forces are either stupid or the president’s security arrangements are weak. How can he possibly defend his country and protect his people? It’s shameful and inappropriate.”