The British ambassador to Mexico has been got rid of from the submit then a video emerged on-line of him it sounds as if pointing an attack rifle at an embassy worker.
The video, shared on X, displays Jon Benjamin pointing the firearm at an individual whose face has been blurred out.
“In a context of daily killings in Mexico by drug dealers, he dares to joke,” reads a submit accompanying the clip.
On Friday, the Monetary Occasions reported the ambassador were got rid of from his submit then the incident, which reportedly came about throughout an respectable go back and forth to the states of Durango and Sinaloa in April.
Each states have a prime presence of drug cartels.
Mexico has an extended historical past of cartel violence, with round 30,000 murders a hour.
“We are aware of this incident and have taken appropriate action,” a spokesman for the United Kingdom International Place of work stated.
“Where internal issues do arise, the FCDO has robust HR processes to address them.”
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Mr Benjamin’s LinkedIn web page says his time period as ambassador led to Would possibly, and a biography posted at the govt web page for the UK notes he “was UK Ambassador to Mexico between 2021 and 2024”.
In keeping with the International Place of work web page, Mr Benjamin “joined the Diplomatic Service in 1986, and previously represented the British government in Chile, Ghana, Turkey, Indonesia, and the United States, during his career”.
Sky Information has approached Mr Benjamin for remark.
