Colombia is the main producer and exporter of cocaine in the world.
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His name was Marcelo Pecci. Paraguay’s prosecutor specializing in the fight against drug trafficking was murdered in Colombia, on a Caribbean island where he was spending his honeymoon, police announced on Tuesday May 10.
Five Colombian investigators were dispatched to the island of Baru “where the murder was committed” to carry out the investigations with the support of Paraguay and the United States, the Colombian police chief told the press. He did not specify the date or the exact circumstances of the assassination, committed while the prosecutor was spending his honeymoon on this tourist island. Colombia is the main producer and exporter of cocaine in the world.
The murder took place on the private beach of a large local hotel, the Decameron Hotel, among tourists and in front of the transparent blue waters of the Caribbean Sea. “Two men came [depuis la mer] on a boat, they approached and opened fire, before fleeingexplained the wife of the victim. “A guard wanted to intervene, they also shot him.”
On Twitter, Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benitez condemned “the cowardly assassination of prosecutor Marcelo Pecci in Colombia” who “mourns the whole Paraguayan nation”. “We condemn this tragic act in the strongest terms and redouble our commitment to the fight against organized crime”commented the president.