LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom’s ambassador to Mexico has left his publish after a video used to be posted on social media that purportedly presentations him pointing an attack rifle close to a colleague.
The Monetary Occasions reported Friday that Jon Benjamin used to be touring in Sinaloa and Durango, two states in northern Mexico the place drug cartels have an important presence, when the incident took place. The video posted at the social media platform X presentations a person who looks as if Benjamin seated within the entrance seat of a automobile, when he choices up the intended rifle and issues it on the again seat. The five-second clip used to be posted via an nameless person together with the message, “In a context of day by day killings in Mexico via drug sellers, he dares to shaggy dog story.”
Whilst the International, Commonwealth and Building Place of job hasn’t formally introduced any adjustments on the embassy in Mexico Town, the FCDO web site lists him as a former ambassador.
“We’re conscious about this incident and feature taken suitable motion,’’ the International Place of job mentioned in a observation launched in accordance with questions concerning the reported incident. “The place inside problems do get up the FCDO has powerful HR processes to deal with them.”
Rachel Brazier has been price d’affaires on the embassy since April, a job during which a diplomat serves as an embassy’s leader of challenge within the absence of the ambassador.
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