In Guerrero, armed men intimidated and assaulted reporter Luis Daniel Nava Jiménez after he covered the funeral of 11 people who were deprived of their freedom and found dead last week.
The events occurred on the night of Saturday, November 9, when Nava Jiménez —who works as a correspondent for the magazine Proceso and El Sur Periódico de Guerrero— went to the town of Chautipan, in the Sierra de Chilpancingo.
Nava and a group of reporters went to the funeral of the 11 people who were kidnapped in El Epazote, municipality of Chilapa, and whose remains were found last Wednesday, November 6, in a van that was abandoned on Vicente Guerrero Boulevard in Chilpancingo.
After that, Nava Jiménez traveled to the center of the capital to have dinner. Later he went to his house, located on Cerrada 20 de Noviembre street in the Tequicorral neighborhood. However, before reaching his home he was intercepted by a pair of men wearing tactical clothing, long weapons and with a “military appearance.”
According to the Association of Journalists of the State of Guerrero, the armed men interrogated Nava and took his cell phone and backpack. After searching his belongings, they took his computer. They also asked him what he did for a living.
When Nava replied that he was a journalist, the attackers responded: “We already know what you do.” In response, organizations of reporters and journalists from Guerrero issued a statement in which they expressed their concern about what had happened, as they indicated that it was an act of intimidation.
“This serious event took place in the context of a climate of serious violence in Guerrero and from which the journalists’ union is not exempt,” they declared, while demanding that the state Attorney General’s Office begin the corresponding investigations to determine responsibilities.
“We are fed up with the cynicism of the authorities who constantly minimize criminal violence and leave the population unprotected (…) From Guerrero, the journalists’ union makes a strong call to the authorities so that this act does not go unpunished. If they attack one, they attack us all.”
The statement was issued on Sunday, November 10 and was signed by the XVII Delegation of the National Union of Press Editors, the Association of Journalists of the State of Guerrero, the Association of Police Information Reporters in the State of Guerrero and the Club of Journalists of Guerrero AC.
One of Nava Jiménez’s last publications in Proceso had to do precisely with the bodies of the 11 people who were found in Chilpancingo. It is unknown if the reporter had received threats previously.
Source: infobae
