Reporters Without Borders denounced Friday "negligence" and "delays" in the legal process around the 2017 assassination of Javier Valdez, Mexican journalist and AFP collaborator.
"The negligence of the authorities and the delays in the process raise fears that once again, those responsible for the crime will go unpunished," denounced in a statement the French organization for the defense of press freedom. "Even if there has been some progress, justice is being done in drops," she added.
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On February 27, a federal judge sentenced Heriberto Picos Barraza, alias "Le Koala", to 14 years and 8 months in prison for his role as driver in the assassination committed on May 15, 2017.
The murder of the co-founder of the weekly Riodoce and collaborator of the daily La Jornada, hailed for his investigations into the drug trade, had sparked international outrage.
The main perpetrators of the assassination are, according to the accusation, Luis Idelfonso Sanchez (killed since) and Juan Francisco Picos Barrueta.
Picos Barraza, who brought them to the scene, was tried in a brief trial after assisting in the investigation, which showed that he was part of a group of delinquents led by Damaso Lopez Serrano, a drug trafficker now incarcerated in the United States.
RSF demands that an 'investigation be carried out to allow this process to be involved and to be extradited to Lopez Serrano' and regrets that the Commission for Attention to Victims has' arbitrarily decided, without any legal basis, to stop supporting it To Valdez's family.
"Advances in the quest for justice are not what we would like, as a family (of the victim). His murder remains unpunished, we do not know why he was killed, we continue to await answers, "said the journalist's widow, Griselda Triana.
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“They got rid of him because someone didn't like what he wrote. Like that, easily. There were several against him alone. In a few seconds, they were done with his life in twelve shots, ”she also writes. Javier Valdez was killed outside his office after investigations into the influence in his native region of drug trafficking networks like that of El Chapo (Joaquin Guzman), who is now serving a life sentence in the United States. United States.