CDMX Video: While filming a beer commercial in Azcapotzalco; they come under attack

Sol Pfendido Borderland Beat from Laneta Noticias

Violence and organized crime operate in total impunity, an example is this daylight assault in broad daylight against a team of publicists in El Arenal,  Azcapotzalco .

According to Sopitas, the production staff were victims of the reality that’s being lived in Mexico City and much of the country to be targeted by thieves, who took advantage of the solitude of the area to remove their belongings with a firearm.

El Universal reported that at around 2:10 pm, at least seven producers of a beer brand were carrying out a commercial when at one point two pickpockets appeared on a motor scooter, fired into the air, threatened them and demanded their belongings.

The assault in broad daylight was recorded by one of the security cameras in Mexico City and it shows the way in which these young people tried to record their commercial without imagining that violence would be stalking them.

The newspaper said that the assault lasted almost half an hour and the cost of the stolen amounted to around 2 million pesos, as they took away cell phones, laptops, wallets, video cameras and photographs.

And if things weren’t embarrassing enough for the capitals image of the country, the foreign producers indicated that the elements of the Police arrived at the place of the assault 20 minutes later.

Sopitas reported that the first thing that the uniformed officers of the CDMX Citizen Security Secretariat did was to scold them for recording without permission, which is why they were surprised because they never imagined seeing such a high level of violence.

Millenium News indicated that foreign producers were identified as Joshua Woods and Nicolas Padron, from the United States in addition to the French Clémentine Fusco, Clémentine Tatin and Betina Diss.

The staff of producers explained that they did not warn the authorities about the recording of their commercial because they were just looking for locations and never thought that the violence was at its maximum point.

So far the authorities of Azcapotzalco have not found those responsible for this millionaire theft. Of course, the bad image left by this assault was not lost on anyone.