March 8 was the worst day to be called Andrés Roemer.
It was on Monday that the facade of his house had more viewers than his television program because on Sunday it stopped broadcasting.
He did it without a statement, without words of condemnation and without the need to position himself.
The 61 testimonies against him –from touching to harassment, rape or deprivation of liberty– did not exist and, simply, the program,
Headlong
with Andrés Roemer
, disappeared from ADN40's programming and neither the program nor the channel reported the change.
But the corporate silence failed to silence neither the street nor the social networks and Roemer's reaction was like the gasoline can in the hands of the arsonist.
Fearing that feminist anger would turn against her palatial Roma neighborhood home, the unofficial ambassador for Mexican culture covered the front of her home with large wooden planks.
The fence, far from dissuading, ended up being the ignominious summary of the recent history of the country.
The 'plywood of hope', as someone baptized it in reference to Andrés Manuel López Obrador's wall in front of the National Palace, became a review of recent years in less than 12 hours.
The first painting, just a few hours after its placement, was "abusive consul."
A reminder to the environment of Enrique Peña Nieto who appointed consul in San Francisco who at that time was a cultivated businessman, trained in Berkeley and close to the PRI, owner of one of the most elegant and best decorated houses in the capital, according to all who have passed, whether they wanted to or not.
On one side of that phrase, another one, “Meade cover-up”, in reference to the former PRI presidential candidate and personal friend of Roemer since his time at ITAM, José Antonio Meade, who served as a wedding witness and for his boss during his time. in San Francisco.
Indirectly, it was a reminder to those who decided to remove him from his post at the head of UNESCO for his pro-Israel stance during a vote, but kept silent about behavior that was a shouting secret.
Along with these phrases shortly afterwards, in green spray, someone wrote "Salinas Pliego concealer", in reference to the owner of the multimedia group TV Azteca and one of the largest fortunes in the country.
Speaking of gasoline and arsonists, the tycoon, at the moment, only one sentence has come out on the Roemer issue and it was to defend his friend from those who asked for his expulsion from the channel.
"Never give in to blackmail and lies", which he published on February 21 on Twitter when at that time only six testimonies were known, one tenth, of the 61 that have been collected against Roemer.
As the hours passed, the black wall filled with women's names.
Along with Rocío, Anna, Claudia, Ivett ... someone painted "den of abuse" and "justice will come to you" and a number written everywhere: "61, 61, 61 ..."
Thus, in less than 12 hours, if anyone had any doubts about where Roemer lived, as of today any tourist has it clear.
When in doubt, there are half a dozen patterned eggs, some of them on aristocratic gray stone.
Several of them fell near the room / library / cinema room where many of the abuses reported by women took place and that the presenter and former Unesco ambassador has denied.
As of Sunday, the Mexico City Prosecutor's Office had received four formal complaints against Roemer for sexual violence.
At the time the last eggs fell on the facade, in the Zócalo, the feminist march was broken up with tear gas by the police after the women knocked down heavier and more forceful fences than Roemer's.
So shortly after, with several blows and kicks, a group of women knocked down the plywood and broke the glass.
A hundred policemen surrounded the place around eight o'clock at night and stopped the lynching of the building.
Of the 61 testimonies collected from women allegedly abused by Roemer, the PUM (Periodistas Unidas Mexicanas) collective recorded that 21 of the attacks took place in the house of the woods.
Four more in restaurants, two in an apartment in Santa Fe, one in his TV Azteca office and another in a hotel room.
According to PUM, “on three occasions the pretext for going to their house was to talk about books and on three other occasions, to talk about topics that interested them.
An assault occurred after an interview and another on a date that ended in sexual abuse. "
In most cases, the Roma colony house was the chosen location.
If justice works, Roemer's worst day should start tomorrow.
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