Peru
Peruvian reporter attacked by four unidentified assailantsPosted Nov 9 2011
A correspondent for the Lima daily La República was shot and wounded Saturday by four unidentified men attempting to kidnap him, said news reports.
According to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, Feliciano Gutiérrez Suca was attacked half a block from his home in Juliaca in the southern region of Puno. In the struggle to resist his attackers, Suca was shot twice in the left leg. Although, Suca attempted to chase after the attackers after he was injured, they fled in a car with the reporter’s cell phone, camera and money.
The attack is the fourth to occur involving a Peruvian journalist this year as previously reported by Global Journalist. Both Liubomir Fernandez, another reporter for La República and the daily’s regional editor Juan Carlos Soto, agree that stories written by Suca in October that linked police officers and contraband smugglers might be connected to the attack. In the report, Suca named one police officer’s involvement.
Soto also told CPJ reporters that police investigators discovered that the car involved in the attack was seen circling Suca’s neighborhood in the days leading to the attempted kidnap, witnessed said.
Suca has been admitted to the Juliaca Hospital and is recovering.