An organized crime prosecutor from Paraguay who was on his honeymoon in Colombia was assassinated Tuesday by gunmen who arrived at the private beach on jet skis
BOGOTÁ, Colombia—An organized-crime prosecutor from Paraguay who was on his honeymoon in Colombia was assassinated Tuesday when gunmen arrived by Jet Ski on a private beach where he was relaxing and shot him, his wife and authorities here and in Paraguay said.
“The best gift of the wedding is…life approaching you with the most beautiful testimony of love,” Ms. Aguilera had written in a post. “My government has landed many blows against organized crime, and this is an action by the mafia to instill fear in our institutions,” he said. Mr. Velázquez, however, said he didn’t know if there was one particular case that Mr. Pecci had been working on that could have led criminal figures to target him.Colombia’s chief of police, Gen. Jorge Vargas, said the government was deploying police and prosecutors to try to solve the case jointly with investigative teams from the U.S.
“The cowardly assassination of the prosecutor Marcelo Pecci in Colombia saddens all of the Paraguayan nation,” Paraguay’s president, Mario Abdo Benitez, said on his Twitter account. “We condemn in the most energetic terms this tragic event and redouble our commitment in the fight against organized crime.”