Two Colombian journalists have been shot useless in the north on Sunday Colombia by people today on motorcycles returning from the assistance of a common festival in the Colombian Caribbean.
Leiner Montero Ortega, 37, and Dilia Contreras Cantillo, 39, had been driving on a street involving the cities of El Copey and Fundacion when they had been approached. “by two thugs on a motorcycle” who has “shot with a gun”, said Colonel Andres Serna, commander of the police of the Maddalena section.
“Act of intolerance”
The two journalists labored for a website, Sol Electronic, situated at the Fundacion. The attack also wounded one “receive professional medical cure” stated Mr. Serna, who did not specify whether the injured social gathering is also a journalist.
A video clip posted around 7:30 pm on Saturday on the Sol Digital Fb site reveals various men and women attending a folk pageant in the village of Santa Rosa de Lima, about 10 miles from the Fundacion.
In accordance to the very first aspects of the investigation, the murder of journalists is joined to a “act of intolerance” through the festivities, a time period utilized by the Colombian authorities to refer to bodily fights and altercations.
But the Foundation for Liberty of the Push (FLIP), a Colombian NGO, has requested the authorities to do so “choose into thing to consider the journalistic operate of Leiner and Dilia in the investigation”. In accordance to this NGO, violence versus journalists in the region improved in 2021, with 768 attacks, including just one murder.
Since the signing of the peace settlement with former FARC guerrillas in 2016, 10 journalists have been killed, earning Colombia the third most hazardous nation in Latin The usa to observe journalism, powering Venezuela and Mexico, according to Reporters With out Borders.
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