After the reporter Carlos Acosta Córdova, collaborator of Proceso, was found dead In a hotel in Tlalpan, in Mexico City, the capital’s Attorney General’s Office reported that it had launched an investigation for the crime of manslaughter.
“He is part of an investigation folder for the crime of culpable homicide for other reasons, after learning of the death of a man, inside a hotel located in the Ermita neighborhood, Benito Juárez mayor’s office,” the agency reported.
The body of the 65-year-old journalist was located in the jacuzzi of a hotel room on the night of March 4.
“The body was taken to the Institute of Forensic Sciences for the corresponding necropsy, which will reveal the causes of death,” added the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office.
The agency explained that Investigative Police (PDI) personnel already analyze public or private video recordings, and interview fact and identity witnesses.
“In parallel, personnel from the Coordination of Forensic Investigation and Expert Services, in the field of Photography, Criminalistics, Chemistry, Genetics and Forensic Medicine, collected different indications for the preparation of the respective opinions,” he explained.
The Prosecutor’s Office is looking for the woman who entered the Tlalpan hotel room with the reporter and who would have left him dead inside the room.
The reporter Carlos Acosta Córdova, who worked at Proceso, He specialized in economic news, a source that he had covered since May 1983 for the medium from which he retired in 2019.
The remains of the reporter are veiled at the Gayosso Sullivan funeral home by his family, friends, collaborators and colleagues.
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