From Cartagena, where the Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci was murdered on May 10, the attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, and the director of the National Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, provided new details of the investigations that led to the capture of five people, who would be implicated in the crime.
Around noon this Tuesday, the authorities gave a press conference, following the imputation of charges and the imposition of the security measure of the five detainees on Friday in Medellín.
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One of the first pieces of information Barbosa gave was that social networks were key to carrying out this murder. This taking into account that the constant publications on social networks that Pecci made with his partner, with whom he was on his honeymoon, were seen by the murderers.
The alleged assassins even stated that at times they were lost, but they found the prosecutor through their networks.
Life cannot be reduced to posting everything you do all day on social media
“There is a fundamental issue here: posting on social networks without responsibility can become a lethal soul. The criminals stated that on many occasions they were lost, but that thanks to social networks they managed to locate prosecutor Pecci,” said Barbosa.
The prosecutor added that They reconstructed everything that happened in Cartagena in the context of the murder of the Paraguayan.
Barbosa said that studies of 20 locations, 200 pieces of evidence, analysis of 120 hours of video, technical information of 40 antennas, the interception of 67 telephone lines, 27 interviews and the analysis of 10 social networks were carried out.
“The collection of material evidence such as videos from security cameras, cell phones and witness statements, allowed us to record the movements of these criminals in real time,” explained the attorney general.
The five presumed involved were captured on Friday of last week in Medellin and later sent to Cartagena, where a judge is handling the case for the murder of Pecci while he was on a beach in Barú, in the capital of Bolívar.
We have information regarding the participation of a sixth person linked to the event and who would have fled to #Venezuela. A blue circular has just been issued #INTERPOL to find your location. We continue with the second phase of the operation to achieve total clarification. pic.twitter.com/OW2EjI2J9U
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(In context: The details of the hearing once morest alleged assassins of prosecutor Pecci)
Four of the detainees accepted the charges brought once morest them by the Prosecutor’s Office. Nevertheless, Francisco Luis Correa, indicated as the determiner and financier of the crime, did not accept them.
In the hearings, in addition, it was known that for the crime of Prosecutor Pecci they would have paid approximately 500 thousand dollars.
Those involved are expected to be transferred to Bogotá, where they will remain in prison while the trial once morest them takes place. They will first be in the prosecutor’s bunker, while quotas are found in the capital’s prisons.
There were such solid investigative structures that the criminals, basically, when they arrive at the guarantee control hearing, what they do is accept the charges
Barbosa also pointed out that during the more than 22 days that the investigations lasted, they managed to solve the crime and every piece of evidence they found. It was ratified by those involved during the hearings that took place in recent days in Cartagena.
The authorities indicated that no rewards were paid to give results and they assure that there were investigative structures “so solid that the criminals, basically, when they arrive at the guarantee control hearing, what they do is accept the charges.”
(In context: The movements and purchases made by prosecutor Pecci’s assassins)
What is coming, said Barbosa, is to identify the perpetrators of the crime, for which they will work hand in hand with the Paraguayan authorities and “once and for all resolve this case, whose tribute to prosecutor Pecci is that we resolve it.”
The detainees “have the door open” for them to provide elements that allow them to find the whereregardings of the intellectual authors of the homicide.
General Vargas, for his part, said that the murder was going to be in Paraguay by a Brazilian gang, but this, finally, was not carried out.
Regarding the criminal gangs to which the assassins would be linked, the Prosecutor’s Office reported that details cannot yet be given, since it is key information to find those responsible. But this group “has the ability to kill anyone in the territory.”
