(RSF/IFEX) – Volunteer firemen searched the river Ypané in the central department of Concepción in vain for the body of missing journalist Enrique Galeano of Radio Azotey on 21 October 2006, after investigators decided it may have been dumped there by the drug traffickers who are suspected of killing him, the online newspaper “ABC Digital” […]
(RSF/IFEX) – Volunteer firemen searched the river Ypané in the central department of Concepción in vain for the body of missing journalist Enrique Galeano of Radio Azotey on 21 October 2006, after investigators decided it may have been dumped there by the drug traffickers who are suspected of killing him, the online newspaper “ABC Digital” reported.
The drug traffickers are supposed to have received Galeano from accomplices in the Azotey police force who may have arrested him because of his reporting on the illegal drug trade in Concepción, the newspaper said.
Shortly before his disappearance on 4 February, Galeano covered the seizure of a shipment of cocaine and heavy weapons in the presence of Yby Yaú District Prosecutor Camila Rojas, local Police Chief Osvaldo Núñez and ruling Colorado Party parliamentary representative Magdaleno Silva, who is suspected of being linked to drug trafficking.
The Paraguayan government has until 31 October to provide information about the Galeano case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Organisation of American States (OAS), but it does not have to publish its conclusions until 16 December.
