Mexico City, Mexico
Unknown subjects attacked the house journalist Francisco Canul, which reported two weeks ago of the murder by police officers of Salvadoran Victoria Esperanza Salazar of Tulum in the Mexican Caribbean, denounced the Article 19 organization.
“Upon arriving home, he discovered that computers and hard drives had been stolen, as well as various personal items and cash,” the press freedom organization reported after contacting Canul.
The journalist, of Mayan origin, works in various local media, such as the Noti Tulum portal, Channel 10, Quequi Quintana Roo and Radio QFM.
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According to Canul regarding Article 19, the front door and several furniture of his house in Tulum “were damaged” and “the stationery was messed up and thrown away”.
He said he had to call the local police twice to report the incident, and the patrol arrived at his home an hour and a half later.
He considered that “it was not a normal robbery”, because “it was vicious”, he claimed that he found “a fingerprint that could be from a policeman’s boot” and suspected that “they were looking for something else”.
“It should be reiterated that these events took place after news reports of Victoria, a Salvadoran migrant who was killed by municipal police on March 27, where Francisco was one of the first journalists to make these events known,” Article 19 points out. .
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The organization said that “this is a matter of great concern, because the raid on the journalist’s house has an inhibitory effect on those who exercise their right to freedom of expression and access to information.”
Victoria Esperanza, 36, resident in Mexico with a humanitarian visa since 2018, was subdued by the four police officers from Tulum, who broke two vertebrae.
Local agents, three men and a woman, were arrested on charges of femicide.
Salazar’s death, recorded on video, provoked outrage in both countries and prompted protests by international organizations and groups accusing Mexican security forces of racism and misogyny, in addition to statements by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.