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A teacher was injured this Friday following the violent intrusion of a group of hooded individuals into the Colegio de Bachilleres (upper secondary) campus 6, located in the Iztapalapa borough, in the eastern part of Mexico City, where they caused destruction with firecrackers.
According to reports from various media outlets, the aggressors, preliminarily identified as members of agitator groups, broke into the school facilities, causing severe damage to the property, broken windows, and damage to parked vehicles, which forced students to take shelter in the back of the premises to protect their physical safety.
Police officers and paramedics arrived at the facilities located in the Unidad Habitacional Vicente Guerrero neighborhood after reports of the attack, where they provided medical attention to the teacher for a head contusion and assisted a woman suffering from an anxiety attack; neither required transport to a hospital.
Images and videos began to circulate on social media showing dozens of students fleeing the campus in a hurry after the detonations, an event that led school authorities to suspend classes immediately to assess the damage and launch the corresponding investigations.
The Mexico City Secretariat of Citizen Security detailed that the aggressors dispersed and abandoned the site upon the arrival of security forces, who deployed an operation in the vicinity of the premises to prevent further incidents and protect the students, who had been forced to retreat to the back of the building.
The event in Iztapalapa adds to recent episodes of violence in schools across the country, such as the one recorded on October 1 in a middle school in Torreón, Coahuila (north), where the intrusion of two former students with machetes led to the death of the vice-principal and left four injured, as well as the incident in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán (west), which left two teachers dead in an armed attack last March.
In addition to these attacks, there was the murder of a student at the CCH Sur of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2025, and an alert issued in Querétaro (center) regarding the spread of coordinated threats against schools via social media.
In this context, the Government of Mexico presented a presidential decree this Friday during the morning conference of President Claudia Sheinbaum, aimed at compelling digital platforms to immediately restrict and remove violent content and incitement to aggression directed at minors.
The regulation establishes the creation of a 24-hour direct contact channel between technology companies and the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), the implementation of age filters, and the removal of content that promotes violence in the school environment.
The attack on the Iztapalapa high school occurs against a backdrop of increasing school aggression in Mexico, where violence and threats on social media have prompted the government to agree on a regulatory framework with internet platforms to prevent attacks and protect children in educational centers.
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