Bolivians were investigating man before his death

THE young Tipperary man shot dead by police in a Bolivian hotel was being investigated by the authorities there prior to his death, the country’s ambassador has told an inquest into his death.

Michael Dwyer, aged 24, of Ballinderry, Nenagh, Co Tipperary, was shot dead along with Eduardo Rozsa Flores and a third man, Arpad Magyaroson, on the fourth floor of Hotel Las Americas in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz on April 16, 2008.

Bolivian ambassador to Britain and Ireland, Beatriz Souviron, told the inquest, which was heard at Dublin County Coroner’s Court yesterday, that Mr Dwyer was being investigated by the Bolivian government prior to his death as part of a group which was trying to “cause some problems in Bolivia. The life of my president was threatened and other leaders”, she said.