The coffin containing the body of Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was shot dead on his honeymoon in Colombia, was repatriated this Friday (13) on a plane bound for Asunción.
A person in charge of the Paraguay Returnees Development Secretariat told AFP that Pecci’s funeral left Cartagena (north) at 5:53 PM from Brasilia and early Saturday after making a stop in Panama. He confirmed that he would arrive in the capital of Paraguay.
AFP journalists recorded the moment a wooden coffin with Pecci’s body left the funeral home for the airport leaving the Caribbean city.
The 45-year-old prosecutor was killed by two gunmen, who took off in a watercraft and arrived on a beach on the island of Barú, near Cartagena. Pecchi was staying at a Decameron hotel with his wife, journalist Claudia Aguilera.
Journalist Óscar Lovera, Aguilera’s colleague at Unicanal, gave details of the crime to W Radio this Friday.
“Marcelo went a little into the water for the last time,” said Lovera. .
He added that he fled after shooting her, “closing the escape with bullets, apparently because there were people who wanted to catch them.”
The attackers also shot a bodyguard unharmed, according to the hotel’s summer report.
Colombian Attorney General Francisco Barbosa assured that there was a “very advanced hypothesis” that the murder was related to “transnational organized crime”.
“These criminal organizations are doing whatever it takes to achieve their ends (…) These are practices seen in other countries, such as Mexico,” Barbosa told Semana magazine this Friday.
Police released a picture of one of the alleged attackers seeking information that would allow Pecci to be captured. In the photo you can see a smiling slim dark-skinned man wearing a hat and sunglasses.
According to Lovera, this was the man who shot her.
Authorities are offering a reward equivalent to $488,000 for information leading to the catching of the killers.
Pecci was a prosecutor specializing in organized crime, drug trafficking, money laundering and terrorist financing.
He got married on April 30 and his wife is pregnant.
source: Noticias
