MEXICO CITY: Britain's ambassador to Mexico was removed from his post after allegedly pointing an assault rifle inside a vehicle carrying embassy staff, reports said on Friday (May 31). The UK government said it had taken "appropriate action" after the incident, without confirming that Jon Benjamin had bee
  • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
    221·
    5 months ago

    Why does the UK ambassador to Mexico carry an assault rifle in their vehicle in the first place?

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      24·
      5 months ago

      I can well believe that security staff in such a vehicle would have weapons like that.

      I suspect it’s a situation where somebody with no gun awareness picked up a weapon he wasn’t supposed to as a very badly thought out joke. If so, I have no problem with somebody who has that kind of judgement being recalled.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      Rough neighborhood.

      Benjamin was on a work trip to a northwestern Mexican region plagued by drug cartel violence when the incident happened, the Financial Times reported.

      Foreign officials often travel with bodyguards when visiting danger zones in Mexico, it noted.

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Uh, what?

      I doubt there are any political types in Mexico that don’t travel with security and powerful guns