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British ambassador to Mexico sacked after 'pointing gun at staff'

Jon Benjamin was reportedly on an official trip when he picked up a gun in the vehicle he was travelling in. The Foreign Office said it had taken "appropriate action" after the incident.

Saturday 1 June 2024

The British ambassador to Mexico has been removed from the post after a video emerged online of him apparently pointing an assault rifle at an embassy employee.

The video, shared on social media, shows Jon Benjamin pointing the firearm at a person whose face has been blurred out.

"In a context of daily killings in Mexico by drug dealers, he dares to joke," reads a post accompanying the clip.

On Friday, the Financial Times reported the ambassador had been removed from his post after the incident, which reportedly happened during an official trip to the states of Durango and Sinaloa in April.

Both states have a high presence of drug cartels.

Mexico has a long history of cartel violence, with around 30,000 murders a year.

"We are aware of this incident and have taken appropriate action," a spokesman for the UK Foreign Office said.

"Where internal issues do arise, the FCDO has robust HR processes to address them."

Mr Benjamin's LinkedIn page says his term as ambassador ended in May, and a biography posted on the government website for the United Kingdom notes he "was UK Ambassador to Mexico between 2021 and 2024".

According to the Foreign Office website, Mr Benjamin "joined the Diplomatic Service in 1986, and previously represented the British government in Chile, Ghana, Turkey, Indonesia, and the United States, during his career".

Sky News has approached Mr Benjamin for comment.

https://news.sky.com/story/british-ambassador-to-mexico-leaves-job-after-pointing-gun-at-staff-13146356

Eyebrows like goat horn.

Pointing a (probably loaded) gun at someone as a joke is the height of STUPIDITY. It gets even MORE stupid when it's in a confined space like a car.

They could hit a bump and the gun could go off.

Hope the fool is not just sacked but SUED!

I cannot suffer fools.

They whites are more cruel than we are.

Am the boss 😎
Werey arrogance befall you now

Very serious.

In Mexico you have to have gangster tendency even as a government official, in order to survive.

The world is getting too unnecessarily serious

Good one!
He shoot his appointment on the foot

From being an ambassador to handicap

Hmmm. See correct government where as if this should be in my country, na promotion Dem go give the ambassador

This is an assault rifle for god's sake.

Him village people don press him... "mumu" button.

Tjra:
How does this relate to the topic?

I can bet you belong to the Obidull family.

Surprised

Many security personnel in Nigeria will be sacked if there is electronic evidence of such when the act is committed by the security forces...

Some will go Extra mile by cocking their rifles against armless citizens.

he could have gotten away with it if it were Nigeria.
That's what makes them different. They stick to law and order

Too much tequila in the system.

phygo89:
They whites are more cruel than we are.

#factos. Anyone who does not agree should have a look at mexican drug lord executions, Isis executions and how muhammad himself killed his so called enemies and war captives although that one na one black slave of allah

Thanks to God he wasn't shot 🙏

anonymuz:
This is an assault rifle for god's sake.

Assault Rifles kill

Saintganduje:
Tinubu need to sack himself.

Shhi!!!

Gun man

He probably had too much to drink and was not thinking clearly

Saintganduje:
Tinubu need to sack himself.

For pointing a gun filled with bullets of hunger, starvation, high inflation rate, etc. at Nigerians

America and gun