Anger Over Dropped Charges in Attack on Mexican Journalist Blancornelas Agence France-Presse
go to original September 12, 2013

A press advocacy group for the Americas expressed serious concern Wednesday that charges had been dropped against a man charged in a 1997 attack on a journalist in Mexico.

Marco Antonio Quinones, known as "El Pato," had been accused of an assassination attempt that wounded Jesus Blancornelas, editor of the Mexican weekly Zeta, and killed his bodyguard.

A ruling by the Sixth District Criminal Court of Mexico, however, recently dismissed the charges.

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) expressed what it called its "highest level" complaint to the Mexican government for its failings in prosecuting the attack against Blancornelas, "which remains unpunished after 14 years," the group said in a statement.

Quinones had been identified by the Mexican attorney general's office as one of the 10 hitmen involved in the attack, which authorities alleged was planned by the Tijuana Cartel.

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