(IPYS/IFEX) – At midday (local time) on 10 March 2006, three unidentified men attacked and stabbed journalist John Collantes Huamán as he arrived to the premises of Radio Horizonte, his workplace, in Cusco, southern Peru. The attackers waited for the arrival of the journalist and assaulted him for no apparent reason. They only desisted when […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – At midday (local time) on 10 March 2006, three unidentified men attacked and stabbed journalist John Collantes Huamán as he arrived to the premises of Radio Horizonte, his workplace, in Cusco, southern Peru.
The attackers waited for the arrival of the journalist and assaulted him for no apparent reason. They only desisted when radio station owner Aurora Yáñez intervened to help Collantes. The three assailants fled in a car that was waiting for them a few meters away. Collantes was not seriously wounded.
The journalist stated to IPYS that he suspects the mayor of the district of Taray, Manuel Huisa Champi, to be behind the attack, in retaliation for a series of accusations broadcast through his program. The program accused the mayor of illegally appropriating property belonging to a school in order to install his private offices.
A report on the attack has been filed with the Cusco police.
