Mexican journalist gunned down in first fatal attack of 2020

[Judi Lynn]

María Elena Ferral shot eight times in Veracruz state
Attacks on reporters continue despite coronavirus pandemic

David Agren in Mexico City

@el_reportero
Tue 31 Mar 2020 18.12 EDT

A Mexican journalist has been shot dead in broad daylight as violent crime in the country – and attacks on the press – continue amid the coronavirus pandemic.

María Elena Ferral was shot eight times on Monday by the masked pillion rider on a motorcycle as she left a notary public’s office in Papantla, a city plagued by organised crime in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

She was taken to a nearby hospital, but died of her injuries several hours later, according to the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (known by its French initials, RSF).

Ferral reported for the Veracruz newspaper El Diario de Xalapa and founded the news website Quinto Poder de Veracruz, where she investigated sensitive issues such as crime, corruption and the police.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/31/mexican-journalist-gunned-down-in-first-fatal-attack-of-2020







They demand justice for the murder of María Elena Ferral
By ELI RIVERA

They demand justice for the murder of María Elena Ferral; Francisco Vargas Perales, delegate of the Club of Journalists of Mexico in the company of a group of reporters from various media outlets in Tuxpan, demanded that Governor Cuitláhuac García Jiménez get justice for the murder of journalist María Elena Ferral Hernández, correspondent for the newspaper Xalapa and director of the Fifth Power Portal, who was murdered yesterday afternoon in the municipality of Papantla.

. . .

"It is unfortunate that we cannot work with confidence, they continue to attack us, they are killing us, we demand that Governor Cuitláhuac García Jiménez clarify all these events that are taking place and that unfortunately are staining our union with blood, Enough is enough! we cannot continue allowing things to remain, just as until now, it has already been very easy for them to kill the reporters, murdering them. ”

https://noreste.net/veracruz/exigen-justicia-por-asesinato-de-maria-elena-ferral/