Intellectual authors of murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci could be outside Colombia, police say

Pecci case: Colombia and Paraguay request international collaboration 4:12 (CNN Spanish) — The Colombian Police considers that the intellectual authors of the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci could already be outside the country. “We have elements of information that determiners (perpetrators) of this crime could be in another country,” said General Jorge Luis Vargas, director of the Colombian National Police, without providing more details about the possible location of those responsible. The information was provided at a joint press conference with the Prosecutor’s Office offered in Cartagena. Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci was assassinated on May 10 when he was on a beach near that city celebrating his honeymoon. Vargas added that the United States Drug Control Administration (DEA) has collaborated with the investigations and they do not rule out that the crime is related to drug trafficking “without ruling out that drug trafficking worldwide is related to radical terrorism,” he said. Colombian authorities also reported that the alleged perpetrators are in preventive detention.The director of the National Police said that four of the five suspects pleaded guilty to murder charges at Tuesday’s court hearing.The body of anti-drug prosecutor Marcelo Pecci arrived in Paraguay 0:31 CNN still does not know if they have lawyers, because the session was behind closed doors The Colombian attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, said that the suspects had located the newlyweds thanks to their social networks, whose use qualifies in this case of “lethal weapon”. “The criminals stated that many times they were lost, but thanks to the The social networks managed to locate and monitor prosecutor Marcelo Pecci,” Barbosa said.