Paraguayan radio journalist shot dead in Brazilian border city
Paraguayan radio journalist shot dead in Brazilian border city
Associated Press in Asuncion, Paraguay
Friday 6 March 2015 14.42 EST
Fifth to be killed since the start of last year while working along porous and crime-ridden border: ‘In this area it’s normal to silence journalists with gunshots’
Associated Press in Asuncion, Paraguay
Friday 6 March 2015 14.42 EST Last modified on Friday 6 March 2015 16.00 EST
A Paraguayan radio journalist has been shot to death in a Brazilian city bordering a crime-ridden area that is a hotbed for drugs and arms smuggling, officials said on Friday.
Gerardo Servian worked for a local radio station near the city of Pedro Juan Caballero. The 45-year-old was killed on Thursday in the Brazilian city of Ponta Pora when he was shot nine times on a street by unidentified gunmen who escaped in a motorcycle, said police chief Walter Vazquez.
The victim’s brother Francisco said Servian had never received death threats, and that he had recently moved to Ponta Pora because his daughters attend a school in the city. But “in this area of the country it’s normal to silence journalists with gunshots”, added the brother, who is also a journalist.
More:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/06/paraguay-radio-journalist-shot-dead-brazil-city-ponta-pora
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