MADRID, 23 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Journalist Fredy Román, director of the now-defunct newspaper ‘La Realidad’ and columnist for various print media, was murdered on Monday afternoon as he left his home in Chilpaccigo, capital of the state of Guerrero, in his car.
On the back of a motorcycle, two assailants have shot Román’s vehicle, according to Televisa. For its part, the Attorney General of Guerrero has opened an investigation to try to clarify what happened.
With this murder, there are already 19 journalists and media workers who have been murdered in Mexico so far in 2022, according to organizations that defend freedom of expression.
Roman had three decades of experience. He published his last article hours before he was assassinated, in which he talked about the case of the 43 Ayotzinapa students kidnapped, tortured and murdered on the night of September 27, 2014 in Iguala, also in the state of Guerrero.
In his article ‘Crime of State’ he criticized the decision to exonerate the former president, Enrique Peña Peña Nieto, and the former Defense Minister, Salvador Cienfuegos, “political and military chiefs” of Jesús Murillo Karam, in charge of that case and who was arrested after a commission’s investigation into that.
On August 18, the organization Article 19 published a report in which it denounced that in Mexico there are attacks on the press every fourteen hours, while during López Obrador’s term 34 media workers have already been murdered.
