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They show the importance of having an international guide of prohibited products in hand luggage.
Niño learns a lesson by having his family supervised before traveling to Oaxaca for his birthday.
The story of the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) detaining a child and his family for carrying inappropriate objects in their luggage may cause a lot of laughter, but it marks the security problems that are experienced every day in Mexico, since stopping the Arms and drug trafficking in the world’s connections (by land, air or sea) has been a challenge between countries that has led them to standardize their security protocols.
One of these, in which airports from the European Union and Latin America coincide, is the guide to “Items prohibited in hand luggage”where airport headquarters are expressly obliged to check and detain any traveler carrying firearms, light, deadly, compressed air or toy weapons, devices that fire projectiles, stun devices, work tools, blunt objects, substances or explosive or incendiary devices, chemical or toxic substances, among many variations of these sections, which can be consulted here.
This time it was two toy guns that went viral at the airport, but each year, on average, 200 thousand real firearms enter Mexico, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) and by the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena).
AICM arrests child with illegal luggage
A video has gone viral on TikTok showing a 6-year-old boy detained at the facilities of the Mexico City International Airport. His crime: carrying toy firearms.
Although it seems strange or exaggerated, the clip titled “Detained at the AICM for possession of weapons”, teaches a lesson to the child who looks scared at the policemen who check his backpack, but also to the users of the Chinese social network who are used to looking for methods to get around the security protocols.
set with the song “Brother fell the law”from ‘Los Tigres de Santa Clara’, the scene shocked thousands of Mexicans, because while the family records the comical video, the minor cannot take his eyes off the airport officer who opened his backpack to photograph his toy guns.
However, his trip was delayed because, being a restricted object by AICM authorities, all the suitcases of his relatives were searched to ensure that they did not carry any other suspicious article that the search band had not detected.
There were 20 minutes of waiting before the family could continue their trip to Oaxaca to celebrate just the six years of the little “smuggler”, who would have secretly put the toys in his backpack, despite the fact that his mother had only given him permission. to bring five toys, including some teddy bears.
@jorch.ch 6-year-old suspect for carrying weapons at the airport 🥲#viralvideo #fyp #aicm #airports #mx #cdmx🇲🇽 ♬ Brother Fell the Law – Tigres De Santa Clara
Although the video was made with humor to expose the ingenuity that the minor had to free himself from his mother’s rule, the digital conversation quickly turned to the easy access that infants have to weapons in the United States, the recent shootings in schools in that country , like the most recent one in May that left 19 children and two teachers dead in Texas, the normalization that exists in Mexico of violence and the lack of attention by authorities and parents in the events that mentally alter adolescents.
“I don’t know why it is difficult for them to understand something so simple and that has been prohibited for a long time. There are functional plastic weapons.” cruzfranciscobust
Both the case and the digital conversation make clear the need to have security protocols in airport facilities, especially those that connect with travelers from all over the world, since each country has its own social problems and many times they cannot be controlled. rates of insecurity, carrying weapons or drug trafficking, but it is possible to cut the distribution chain with small acts such as the simple inspection of luggage, so this family will think twice when vacationing and, in addition to supervising your child and their belongings, they will be able to tell the anecdote as a lesson and a moral about something that is bigger than their two toy guns.
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