(IPYS/IFEX) – On 14 December 2006, journalist Marilú Gambini received a death threat on her cell phone. The journalist has remained in hiding since April after having been threatened and assaulted several times, beginning in 2005, because of her investigations on drug trafficking and corruption in the city of Chimbote in northwestern Peru. The authorities […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 14 December 2006, journalist Marilú Gambini received a death threat on her cell phone. The journalist has remained in hiding since April after having been threatened and assaulted several times, beginning in 2005, because of her investigations on drug trafficking and corruption in the city of Chimbote in northwestern Peru. The authorities have not yet identified those responsible. The callers stated that they know where she is and that they will kill her.
According to Gambini, this new threat may be related to the fact that on 27 November, the Transitory Criminal Courtroom of the Supreme Court ordered the reopening of the case against the owners of Hayduk fishing company, the Baraka and Martínez families, accused of drug trafficking by Gambini in her investigations. The journalist has continued publishing reports about the case in Chimbote’s weekly paper “Investigando”. After the court ruling, Gambini published an article in which she summarised all the information substantiating the allegations that Hayduk company engaged in drug trafficking.
