Colombian police have released a photo of one of the suspects in the murder of Paraguay’s anti-drug prosecutor.
Colombian police released the photos one of the murder suspects by Marcelo Pecci, a Paraguayan prosecutor known in his country for fighting organized crime and drug dealing, loaded with bullets on a paradisiacal island in Colombia, while he was on a honeymoon with his wife.
In the Police circular, a man dressed in black and with a hat was seen partially hiding his face, and asked for the cooperation of the public to identify him, with several phone and email lines to provide information.
The director of the Colombian Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, announced at a press conference that the reward of 2,000 million pesos (about $ 490,000) for those who provide information on those who killed the Paraguayan official.
“We hope that in the next few minutes, with orders from the Judicial Police, we will be able to provide the national and international community with other elements so that everyone can help us find more people to clarify this fact,” he added. niya.
The killing took place Tuesday in Barú, an island about 40 minutes by boat from the tourist city of Cartagena de Indias, where Pecci, 45, is visiting. Honeymoon with his wife, Paraguayan journalist Claudia Aguilera, whom he married on April 30 in Asunción.
The Decameron hotel, where the couple announced they would be parents, said “hitmen who came on jet skis to the beach” killed the prosecutor.
According to the report of hotel officials, the assailants shot one of the security guards of this beach resort, but it was not hurt.
According to Police, “there is no knowledge of the Paraguayan prosecutor’s presence in Colombia, and because of his position he is one of the most protected people in Paraguay.”
Colombian authorities have not yet released more details on who may be behind the murder of this expert prosecutor against Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering and Terrorism Funding in Paraguay.
Meanwhile, Paraguay’s president Mario Abdo Benítez pointed out “organized crime” by emphasizing the fight led by the Paraguayan official, while that country’s Prosecutor’s Office labeled as “cowards” the hiding behind “large criminal structures”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that it instructed Paraguayan’s ambassador to Colombia, López Garelli, to contact prosecutor Pecci’s wife and the Colombian authorities to collect as much data as possible on the event and report that consul Romy Romero moved to Cartagena to monitor the event.
The slain official has faced media cases such as the arrest for forgery of the passport of former Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho or the investigation into the shooting that took place at the Ja’umina festival, last January, where the model and “influencer” Cristina ‘Vita’ Aranda died. , wife of soccer player Ivan Torres.
Paraguay’s attorney general Sandra Quiñónez confirmed, in statements on Colombian radio station Blu Radio that they were studying the hypothesis whether Pecci, who “managed his entire security system himself,” followed from Asunción to Cartagena.
“At some point (Pecci) has to deal with certain types of threats that he knows how to handle very well, taking precaution to his job,” the prosecutor said, who said the murdered officer was a “personal friend.”
With information from EFE
Source: Clarin
