By Prensa Latina,
Madrid : US soldiers are again in the sight of Spaniards like possible people in charge for the death of another journalist of this European country during news coverage of events, this time in Haiti.
It is about Ricardo Ortega, Antena-3 TV Channel special reporter, victim of shot in Port Prince in March 2004, while covering a demonstration pitting supporters and detractors of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
When reporting on the investigations carried out, the family of Ortega assured in Madrid that the journalist was shot dead by foreign soldiers forces present in the disturbances in Haiti in 2004, he did not died victim of the firing, specifically US Marines.
That conclusion is not yet definitive and the parents of the journalist have already expressed their interest in making Spanish government officially demand information to the countries that at that time counted on military soldiers in Haiti.
According to the investigations, Ortega was attacked with heavy munitions, only owned by Canadian, French and US soldiers, but first two did not make any in that occasion, whereas US did.
On April 8, it turned five years of the death in Iraq of the Spanish cameraman Jose Couso by members of the third US army division that shot against Palestina Hotel in Baghdad.
Little more than a year ago, Spanish Supreme Court ordered to investigate the case and to judge those military men by genocide crimes against humanity.