LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom’s ambassador to Mexico has left his put up nearest a video was once posted on social media that purportedly presentations him pointing an attack rifle at an embassy worker.
The Monetary Instances reported Friday that Jon Benjamin was once touring in Sinaloa and Durango, two states in northern Mexico the place drug cartels have a vital presence, when the incident passed off. The video posted at the social media platform X presentations a person who seems like Benjamin seated within the entrance seat of a automobile, when he choices up the meant rifle and issues it at any person within the again seat. The five-second clip was once posted via an nameless person together with the message, “In a context of daily killings in Mexico by drug dealers, he dares to joke.”
Occasion the Overseas, Commonwealth and Building Place of business hasn’t formally introduced any adjustments on the embassy in Mexico Town, the FCDO web site now not lists Benjamin as ambassador.
“We are aware of this incident and have taken appropriate action,’’ the Foreign Office said in a statement released in response to questions about the reported incident. “Where internal issues do arise the FCDO has robust HR processes to address them.”
Rachel Brazier has been price d’affaires on the embassy since April, a task through which a diplomat serves as an embassy’s of venture within the a lack of the ambassador.
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