Three years following the shooting in Cuernavaca that left two dead and two woundedRene Pérez, a journalist who survived the shooting, called his colleagues to not normalize the violence and demanded that the authorities guarantee the journalistic exercise.
36 months have passed since that morning in which René covered a demonstration of merchants, next to the Government Palace (official seat of the Executive Power) and what seemed like daily coverage ended in a tragedy in which he too was affected.
A young man with a gun in his hand shot contra Roberto Castrejon Calderon and Jesus Garcia Rodriguezboth union leaders, in his flight also shot at Rafael Hassiel Castrejon Calderon and Rene Perez.
The young man fled but was arrested minutes later a few meters from the scene; was linked to the process and to date the trial has not yet concluded. After that, according to what was documented by the Network of Women Journalists of the State of Morelos, a wave of direct threats in person and on social media once morest some of the male and female reporters who were present in that coverage; In addition, blankets were placed where the guild in general was threatened by alleged criminal groups.
In an interview, the communicator regretted that they passed “Three long years and everything is unpunished, justice has not yet arrived“, he maintained, following revealing that this Monday the hearing will be held in which he will render his statement on the facts- this was postponed a few months ago-.
He reproached that at a distance no state authority – in charge of guaranteeing the security of all citizens and guaranteeing the journalistic exercise – has been able to generate the conditions for journalism to be exercised freely in this entity.
