By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and FERNANDA FIGUEROA | Associated Press

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Claudia Sheinbaum said she is pressing charges after a man groped her in the street while she walked between meetings in Mexico City.

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She also called on states to scrutinize their laws and procedures to make it easier to report such assaults and said Mexicans needed to hear a “loud and clear no, women’s personal space must not be violated.”

Sheinbaum, 63, the nation’s first woman president, said on Wednesday that she felt a responsibility to press charges for all Mexican women. “If this is done to the president, what is going to happen to all of the young women in our country?” she asked.

The groping occurred Tuesday as the president, on a five-minute walk from the National Palace

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