They revealed that the Paraguayan prosecutor killed in Colombia received a distressing threat to his marriage

Marcelo Pecci, the Paraguayan prosecutor who resisted drug trafficking and is full of ammunition in Colombia On their honeymoon, she received a distressing threat on the very day of her wedding.

This follows the release of the report by Sebastian Acha, former deputy and very close friend of the victim. shown already a car without a license plate tried to block his path as he was on his way from the church to the hotelon April 30 in the capital of Paraguayan.

Pecci married Paraguayan journalist Claudia Aguilera in Asunción. That day, after the ceremony, the car that escorted the prosecutor “had to move to prevent another vehicle from closing the car where the couple was going from the Church to the Gran Hotel del Paraguay,” the revealed by Acha.

“Do not stepbut a vehicle without a license plate blocked his path on España Avenue, “he added at 730 AM.

As stated, it is a black Kia Sorento vehicle crossed the car delivering the prosecutor from the church of San José de Asunción, located on España Avenue, corner of San José.

He said that, at the time, the truth had not caught their attention, “but now it may be important for investigation.”

Pecci is known in his country for fighting organized crime and drug trafficking. In this regard, Acha said: “He knew the danger of his job, I know, but I don’t want to give up that job. His father told him, we told him. “

“They are forty years of friendship, very difficult. We all knew the dangers that Marcelo was in,” he lamented.

Finally, he warns:They killed him to the best of his knowledge. He knows a lot. And I don’t know if there’s any backing up to what he found out. ”

Meanwhile, authorities on Wednesday did not exclude the prosecutor in Colombia from Paraguayan territory.

“We think the follow-up can start here,” Paraguayan National Police commander Gilberto Fleitas told local media.

Along the same line, Paraguay’s attorney general, Sandra Quiñónez, said: “Nothing can be denied within an investigation, that follow-up is from here”

He explained that Pecci’s work “crossed” the borders of Paraguayan, so “they might have followed him from here; the intelligence work could have been done from here and there they might have done the action.”

The crime

Marcelo Pecci (45) was shot Tuesday by unknown assailants in Barú, an island about 40 minutes by boat from the tourist city of Cartagena de Indias. At that place, the officer honeymooned with his new wife.

One of the hypotheses considered by investigators refers to the fact that the attack was related to the work of the slain officer.

Pecci ba yan He is an expert prosecutor against organized crime and has experience in the anti -drug trafficking, money laundering and terrorism funding units of the Paraguayan Public Ministry.

In his country he participated a series of high-profile casessuch as operation “A Ultranza”, which investigated massive drug trafficking and money laundering schemes in neighboring countries, or a quadruple homicide in which one of the victims was the son of a provincial governor.

He recently oversaw other investigations related to organized crimesuch as the double attack on a music festival that took place this year, the loss of weapons from a government arsenal, or the extradition of a Lebanese-Brazilian citizen accused of money laundering from drug trafficking.

What is known so far is that the prosecutor was attacked by two people who approached the beach where the couple was jet skiing.

They fired from the water and fled. There were three shots. Pecci was transferred to a health center, but arrived dead. Meanwhile, her husband was not hurt.

Hours after the murder, Colombian Police issued a search and capture circular with a photo of one of the suspects in the act.

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.