Environmental defender David Díaz Valdez was killed by gunshot wounds in Manzanillo, Colima, on the afternoon of July 2.
Police authorities said the shots were fired by “unknown subjects” as the activist exited his vehicle.
The Red Cross arrived at the scene to attend to the victim who no longer presented vital signs and it was the Attorney General’s Office (FGE) who took charge of the body and began with the investigations of the incident.
On June 21, the environmentalist was released after being imprisoned for the crime of “threats and dangerous attack,” associated with the work of activism he was doing and “the public denunciation regarding the negative impacts of the construction of a thermoelectric plant in the community of Campos, of that state,” reported the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) that condemned the murder.
At the same time, he demanded that the Attorney General’s Office of the state of Colima “carry out an efficient, objective, prompt and impartial investigation, in which the material and intellectual authors of the murder of the defender are identified and located, considering particularly in its lines of investigation the work of activism that he was carrying out, since only in this way will the cycle of impunity that has persisted in the homicides and attacks on human rights defenders be brought down.”
The CNDH announced that there is an increasing number of homicides committed against human rights defenders, since this crime brings the total number of defenders murdered from 2006 to date.
“This is the eleventh case so far this year, of which eight activists were working in defense of the environment,” he added.
The CNDH also noted “an alarming lack of effectiveness, validity, reaction, and attention on the part of the bodies and authorities responsible for preventing, protecting, and preventing attacks and killings against human rights defenders.”
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