By Ingrid Bachmann
Early in the morning of Jan. 11, an armed group fired shots and threw a grenade at the offices of El Norte newspaper in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Milenio reports. No one was wounded in the attack, but the grenade broke windows and damaged the exterior of the building, El Universal adds.
The incident took place just days after a similar attack on the offices of Televisa in the border city of Piedras Negras. Last year, the newspapers El Debate and Noroeste, in Mazatlán; El Sol de la Laguna, in Torreón; and El Sol, in Acapulco, also suffered this type of attack. Attacks like these and others are plotted on the Knight Center map of threats against journalism in Mexico.
According to Informador, the spokesperson for the Nuevo León security ministry said they have already contacted the newspaper’s management to analyze the measures that are necessary to protect its journalists.
The attack took place several hours after a criminal group threatened to eliminate the “[scum] that are also found in local media outlets,” EFE adds.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
