In a statement, the widow of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, murdered in Colombia a year ago, announced that she will not return to the country despite the condition imposed by the court to attend the trial in person. Claudia Aguilera expressed that she does not intend to return to Colombia since it is the place where her husband was killed and where both she and her son could have lost their lives. She expressed her disagreement with the Colombian Constitutional Court’s decision to make in-person trials mandatory, considering that this openly violates her rights as a victim, mother, and woman.
Aguilera mentioned that the court required her to travel to the place of the trial and prevented her from following the hearings remotely, as she had been doing until now. In her statement, she emphasized that she does not have the economic means to pay for the trip of her legal representative and considers it unfair not to be able to be present and follow the trial live as she had done before.
The widow called on international human rights organizations to take measures to allow her to watch the trial from her country in real time, as is her right. She thanked the Colombian Attorney General’s Office for its work in the investigation and regretted the conditions imposed by the Court, as they seriously affected her rights to truth, justice, reparation, and non-repetition.
These statements coincide with the start of an oral trial against Margareth Lizeth Chacón Zúñiga, accused of ordering the crime. It is expected that she will be able to provide clues about a possible mastermind in Paraguay in exchange for a reduced sentence. The murdered prosecutor’s father, Francisco Pecci Manzoni, also mentioned that Chacón Zúñiga knows who the mastermind was and is the wife of one of the six individuals who have already been convicted. The investigation still seeks to identify the principal, the moral responsible for this resounding crime against the prosecutor.