The Veracruz Attorney General’s Office announced this Tuesday the arrest of the alleged perpetrator of the murder of communicators Yesenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García, registered on May 9.
Both professionals, employees of the information agency The Truthful, were victims of a firearm attack in the town of Cosoleacaque, in Veracruz. Mollinedo was taken to a hospital where she later died, while García would also have lost his life shortly after the shooting, according to local media reports at the time.
The Veracruz Attorney General’s Office reported the arrest of Antonio jesus “N“, alias “El Mara”, who is attributed the crime of intentional homicide in the case of the death of both communication professionals.
“Arrested for the alleged crime of intentional homicide to the detriment of journalists from Cosoleacaque (…) The State Attorney General’s Office reports that elements of the National Anti-Kidnapping Coordination (know), in coordination with this Prosecutor’s Office, executed the injunction,” the Veracruz Attorney General’s Office reported on its social networks.
against Antonio de Jesús “N”, alias “El Mara”, for the alleged crime of qualified intentional homicide, committed against the director of the portal El Veraz, Yessenia Mollinedo Falconi, and the reporter Sheila Johana García Olivera,
– FGE Veracruz (@FGE_Veracruz)
May 17, 2022
There are already 11 journalists who have been murdered this year in Mexico, considered one of the countries where it is most dangerous to practice the profession.
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