The Mexican journalist Marco Ernesto islands has been murdered on the outskirts of his domicile in the city of Tijuana, in the state of Baja California, and, next to the body, those responsible for his death have left an “supposed narcomension”.
This has been confirmed by the father of the victim, the Journalist Marco Antonio Islands, who, in addition, has admitted to ignore the content of the message at the crime scene, but it has noted that “it has to do with the new administration”
From some group dedicated to drug trafficking.
In addition, in a message published in his social networks, the islands parent has pointed out that his son would have received up to four firearm shots.
Likewise, according to the newspaper ‘La Jornada’, neighbors of the place would have seen fleeing from the place of the facts to two men.
Later, the General Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Baja California has confirmed the arrest of one of the alleged authors of crime.
At this point, the prosecution has added that, based on the family themselves, islands no longer exercising the journalistic profession, because it would have abandoned it for “personal reasons”.
The murder of islands is already the third of a journalist in Tijuana so far this year and the fifth nationally.
The photojournalist Margarito Martínez was killed in front of him on Monday;
On January 10, Luis Gamboa was killed in the state of Veracruz;
On January 23, the death of Lourdes Maldonado was notified, while Roberto Toledo was murdered at the beginning of the month of February in the state of Michoacán.
The Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) has reported that, over the past 30 years, about 140 journalists have been murdered in Mexico, which makes the country in one of the most dangerous for
Exercise the profession.
