The representative of the Public Prosecution Service was in Cartagena de Indias to celebrate his honeymoon
According to Paraguayan ambassador to the country Sophia López Garelli, Paraguayan organized crime prosecutor Marcelo Pecci was murdered on Tuesday in an alleged assault while on his honeymoon in Colombia’s Cartagena de Indias.
Pecci, with experience in units against drug trafficking, money laundering and terrorist financing with the Paraguayan prosecutor’s office, was injured by a bullet in an attack committed by unidentified persons on a beach on an island on the Barú Peninsula, in the city of Cartagena . According to the country’s media, the crime was committed by two people who went to the prosecutor on a jet ski and opened fire from there. Pecci was transferred to a health center, but he arrived dead.
He had moved to Cartagena with his wife, Claudia Aguilera, whom he married on April 30. Hours earlier, Aguilera, who was unharmed, had announced on social networks that the couple were expecting their first child, according to Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color.
The Paraguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that it has asked Ambassador López Garelli to contact the prosecutor’s wife and the Colombian authorities to gather as much information as possible. Consul Romy Romero is already on his way to Cartagena to follow the investigations closely.
For his part, the President of Paraguay, Mario Abdo, has published a message on his profile on the social network Twitter to condemn the “cowardly murder” of Pecci, an event that, he says, has left the whole country in mourning. “We condemn this tragic event in the strongest possible terms and redouble our commitment to fight organized crime. Our sincere condolences to their families,” said Abdo.
Through the same channel, the President of Colombia, Iván Duque, conveyed the rejection of the Colombian authorities to what happened and reported that he had a meeting with Abdo to express his condolences and “to give every cooperation to the responsible to find” .
Source: La Verdad
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