MEPs to meet Bolivia shooting victim’s family

The family of an Irishman shot dead by security forces in Bolivia over an alleged presidential assassination plot is to step up its campaign for EU help in holding the foreign authorities to account.

Mystery surrounds the death of Michael Dwyer, from Ballinderry, Co Tipperary, who was one of three men killed in a police shooting in Santa Cruz in Apr 2009. The 24-year-old had been working as a security guard when he died during what local police claimed was a gunfight at the hotel he was staying in.

After the shooting, the police said they had foiled an alleged plot to assassinate president Evo Morales.