Haitian Activist Wilner Metelus Dies in Edomex
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Tijuana.- Haitian-born activist, human rights defender of Haitian and African migrants, Wilner Metelus, died on Tuesday, June 10 in the municipality of Tecámac, State of Mexico, due to an acute myocardial infarction. Metelus was president of the Citizen Committee in Defense of the Naturalized and Afro-Mexican (CCDNAM), and was also recognized as a human rights defender in the wake of the exodus of Haitian migrants who arrived in Tijuana in 2016.…
Haitian human rights defender Wilner Metelus died in the State of Mexico, so neighbors mobilized so that his body would not end up in a mass grave. On June 10, Mexican authorities went to the Hacienda del Bosque 3rd stage division in Tecámac, due to a neighborhood complaint that reported a strong smell of decomposition of the department where Metelus lived. Firefighters opened the building and confirmed the finding of the body, while elements of…
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