Mexican journalist and current columnist Fredid Román He was executed this Monday afternoon in Chilpancingo, the capital of the southern state of Guerrero. Rome He was shot while in his car. Wine color on Prolongación Valerio Trujano street in Progreso district. According to reports from the State Police, Fredid Román was injured inside the vehicle. But by the time medics from the Red Cross arrived, the Mexican journalist was already dead from gunshot wounds to different parts of his body.
“Ministry personnel and specialist services went to the scene to conduct relevant investigative procedures, which ensured that the necessary evidence was obtained to clarify the facts,” the Guerrero State’s Attorney General’s Office (FGE) said in a statement. In addition, the authorities confirmed that an investigation has been launched against Fredid ‘N’ for “murder with a firearm against those responsible”.
Fredid Román Román writes the column for La Realidad Escrito, which is currently in circulation in the local media. Previously, he was the founder of the extinct print newspaper La Realidad; He also directed the Popular Expression and collaborated in different media in Guerrero’s capital.
Until now The motive for the murder is unknown and there is no official version about. Although the Club de Periodistas de Guerrero association did not address the issues of violence by colleagues, in a letter, it has recently went to FGE to demand justice for the murder of one of his relatives recorded recently in the town of Ocotito in the same municipality.
“We request the Guerrero Attorney General’s Office to promptly investigate the murder and the alleged leak of our colleague’s request for justice before this justice supply body,” the document says. Meanwhile, Guerrero’s FGE is “conducting investigation and follow-up work to clarify the facts so that the law applies to those responsible for various crimes.”
With the murder of Fredid Román, 16 journalists have been murdered in Guerrero since 2000; and the second person killed in the current state government. Recently, the deputy representative of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH) in Mexico warned that “the killing of journalists registered in Mexico is a cause for concern”. According to the figures received from the organization, Article 19, At least 154 communicators have been killed in Mexico since 2000 possibly related to journalism work. In the current administration of President López Obrador since December 2018, approximately 2000 attacks on the press 40 murders, including 15 murders so far this year in the country.