Two assailants on a motorcycle shot Fredy Román while he was in his vehicle
Journalist Fredy Román, director of the now-defunct newspaper ‘La Realidad’ and columnist for several print media outlets, was murdered Monday afternoon when he entered his home in Chilpancigo, the capital of the state of Guerrero, in Mexico. Two assailants on a motorcycle fired at his vehicle. This murder has killed 19 journalists in the country so far in 2022.
Guerrero’s attorney general has opened an investigation to try to clarify what happened. The Public Prosecution Service explained that the murder of Román may be related to the murder of his son on July 1. The columnist had demonstrated at the Public Prosecution Service’s facilities to demand justice and clarification of the facts.
Roman had three decades of experience. Hours before he was murdered, he published his latest article, on the case of the 43 Ayotzinapa students who were kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 2014. In his “State Crime” writing, he criticized the decision to assassinate former President Enrique Peña Peña Nieto and the one who was Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos.
The journalist’s crime was outraged by the union, so the Guerrero Journalists Club called for a demonstration this Tuesday in Acapulco to demand justice. The country’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, deplored the murder and expressed his “sadness” at what happened. During his tenure, 34 journalists were murdered.
Source: La Verdad
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