Mexico: a journalist killed in Tijuana, the first since the beginning of 2022

The companion and a relative of Margarito Martinez in front of the place where the photographer was killed in the city of Tijuana on January 17, 2022. AFP - GUILLERMO ARIAS

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This Monday, a journalist was killed, not far from his home, in Tijuana, in the state of Baja California.

Margarito Martinez, a photographer who collaborated with several publications, is the first victim of this profession since the beginning of the year.

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Specializing in police investigations, Margarito Martinez had been threatened on social networks since last December, but had no police protection.

A 49-year-old photographer, he was killed on Monday, January 17, during an assault with a firearm according to the Baja California State Department of Security.

The public prosecutor's office therefore decided to open an investigation, considering that " 

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One of the most dangerous countries in the world

Margarito Martinez is the first journalist killed since the beginning of the year in Mexico, a country regularly singled out, because it is considered

with a hundred deaths in this profession since 2000 according to the Commission Mexican human rights.

Last year, at least seven journalists were killed there according to Agence France-Presse.

another victim

And Margarito Martinez could not be the only journalist killed since the beginning of the year since the body of José Luis Gamboa, stabbed on January 10 in the port of Veracruz has been identified by his family.

José Luis Gamboa had left the profession to become an analyst on social networks.

The State Commission for the Protection

on Monday asked the General Prosecutor's Office of the State of Veracruz to open an investigation.

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