The legal counsel of daily newspaper Reporte Diario de la
Economía, Yisel Soares, reported on Monday night that
the newspaper vice-president Pierre Fould Gerges, 48, was
murdered in a gas station located in Chuao, east Caracas.
Gerges left on 5:30 p.m. the head offices located in Las
Mercedes in a car property of his brother Tannous. On arriving
in the gas station, he was shot 17 times between his neck
and chest, said Soares.
"While he was in the gas station approximately at 6:00 p.m.
a bike arrived; the carrier went down, shot Fould and fled,"
reported the Baruta police.
The lawyer said that in June 2007, the newspaper editor,
Tannous Gerges, had been threatened to death.
The continued threats had been denounced at the courts. "We
had filed also a complaint in June 2007 with the Scientific,
Penal and Criminology Investigation Agency (Cicpc)," the legal
counsel added.