A Colombian journalist was assassinated on Monday in the south-west of Colombia, we learned on Tuesday November 29 from concordant sources.
Wilder Alfredo Cordoba was killed on Monday afternoon by individuals traveling on motorcycles in the locality of El Union, in the province of Narino, the mayor of this municipality said on social networks.
The journalist criticized the local administration and the insecurity
The Public Prosecutor's Office announced on Twitter that it had opened an investigation and deployed a team of investigators on site to "
carry out urgent actions and clarify the facts
".
“
We reject and deeply regret the murder of journalist Wilder Alfredo Cordoba
,” FLIP, a Colombian press defense NGO, said on Twitter.
Wilder Alfredo Cordoba was the “
director of the local channel TV Union, and published on his personal Facebook profile critical information on the local administration and on the insecurity in the area
”, recalls this NGO.
“
We ask local and national authorities to quickly investigate this crime in order to find those responsible
”, and to “
consider in their investigation the relationship between this murder and the journalistic work
” of the victim, added FLIP.
