Paraguay fires its prosecutor Marcelo Pecci “murdered for his honesty”

With tributes at their favorite places (the football club, the school and the fire station), Paraguay fired this Sunday Marcelo Puccithe 45-year-old prosecutor against organized crime who was assassinated by assassins in Colombia due “to his honesty”.

“They killed him because he bothered him because of his honesty (…) They kill a man for doing his job, honestly. At the age of 45, they cut short the life of an upright, decent man,” cried his father Francis Pecciat the gates of the La Recoleta cemetery.

Look: The body of the anti-mafia prosecutor leaves Colombia for Paraguay

The remains of Pecci They arrived in Asunción on Saturday from Cartagena de Indias, in Colombia, where he was spending their honeymoon with his wife Claudia Aguilera when two gunmen shot him dead.

Accompanied by hundreds of people, the coffin was taken this Sunday to the Guaraní soccer club, of the first division, of which he was a leader. “He is not leaving, he is not leaving, Marcelo is not leaving”, the fans who waved the yellow Guarani flags shouted as they passed.

Honors were also paid to him at his San José school, one of the most traditional in Asunción.

The firefighters sounded their sirens in memory of the prosecutor who supported that volunteer body.

Pecciwho was expecting a child, was characterized by his firm investigation of organized crime cases and was considered the right hand of Attorney General Sandra Quiñonez.

Source: Elcomercio

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