Some 2,000 people marched in Paraguay in tribute to prosecutor Marcelo Pecci murdered in Colombia

Some 2,000 people marched in silence this Friday through the radio center of Asunción in tribute to the anti-drug prosecutor Marcelo Pucciassassinated on a tourist island in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, last Tuesday at the hands of two assassins.

His remains will arrive on Saturday for his wake and burial.

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Under the slogan “For Bravery and Courage”, the contingent headed by the State Attorney General, Sandra Quiñonez, went to the National Pantheon of Heroes where several of her colleagues repudiated the crime in an act and highlighted the personality of the representative of the Public Ministry.

With black shirts symbolizing mourning, banners such as “Marcelo Pecci lives”, “There is no peace without justice” among numerous other messages, prosecutors, judges, former faculty and school classmates and even members of sports entities and firefighters to whom he was linked, they walked about 10 blocks from the headquarters fiscal to pay tribute.

The fiscal45, a delegate of the Unit against Organized Crime of the Prosecutor’s Office and head of the Unit against Drug Trafficking, fell victim to three gunshots on the last day of his honeymoon at the hands of two assassins who used How to transport a jet ski.

He had married a television journalist on April 30 in Asunción.

In Paraguay it carried out incriminating processes against several Paraguayans, Brazilians and Lebanese accused of crimes and drug trafficking.

His father, retired judge Francisco Pecci Manzoni, present at the event, highlighted the kindness and conduct of his son and demanded justice. “I will have the consolation of knowing that my son earned a place as a martyr, hero of the country,” he remarked.

Source: Elcomercio

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