The Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has claimed a prison guard is sexually harassing him during inspections, his lawyer said.
His lawyer, Silvia Delgado, said that the drug lord is uncomfortable with the way he is being treated.
‘There is a security guard that handles me instead of only touching me’
Delgado has asked for better cell conditions for the former drug cartel leader in the prison in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua.
She said Guzman told her that it’s ‘more than abuse – they are handling me’ and called the way in which her client is handled ’embarrassing’.
Delgado said that the kingpin told her of the prison guard: ‘He squeezes and bothers me.’
Another of Guzman’s lawyers, Jose Refugio Rodriguez, told Radio Formula that he could not confirm or deny his client’s sexual harassment claims.
‘I can not deny Silvia, because Joaquin is not obliged to tell me all of the details of his conversations with her,’ he said, adding: ‘With me he did not complain of a sexual touch.’
He did say, however, that Guzman told him guards made him change his clothes so his body was exposed.
