Threatened Messi, fine and shooting at his wife’s supermarket

The man of dreams who less than three months ago was carried in triumph like a deity ends up in the mafia’s sights, entering the darkest of nightmares. Shots and threats were launched against Lionel Messi and his family, victims of a clear act of intimidation by Argentine organized crime. According to local media reports, 14 shots were fired in the city of Rosario at three in the morning by two people on a motorcycle against the facade of a supermarket belonging to the family of Antonella Roccuzzo, wife of the ‘Pulce’ that dragged Argentina to the title worldwide.

The attackers allegedly left a note at the scene with a threat addressed to the ‘Seleção’ captain himself: “Messi we are waiting for you, Javkin is a drug trafficker, he will not protect you”. , mayor of Rosario, a city that for some time has suffered from the widespread presence of organized crime linked to drug trafficking to the point of being nicknamed “the Argentine Chicago”.

Just a month ago, Javkin himself gave a stark description of what is happening on the streets of his city. The political upheaval caused by the rise of drugs in Rosario cost Santa Fe’s Minister of Security his job. The mayor has repeated repeatedly in recent weeks the adequate lack of vehicles. “In Rosario there are very few free ones available, at least half of what you would need,” said the mayor of Rosario, Messi’s hometown, in an interview with Argentine broadcaster Radio Miter. “I’m tired of repeating it, but I have to say: I don’t have a Municipal Police. And where are the police?”, he insisted. The targeted ‘Unico’ supermarket is run by one of the cousins ​​of Argentine captain Lionel Messi’s wife. All the bullets hit the display cases. An alert that is intertwined with a series of public order problems that are bringing the city of Rosario to its knees, where for two weeks there have been clashes with the police over the management and control of the territory. The mayor sowed doubts about the work of the police, insisting that what happened “is very treacherous”: “What more important news can be generated if you want to create chaos in the city?” asked the mayor.

The news from Argentina recalls another threat that Messi suffered in 2017. A few months before the start of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the Islamic extremists of ISIS released intimidating messages using a photo of the Argentine champion, in which the player , then from Barcelona , ​​​​is seen crying tears of blood behind the bars of a prison. Accompanying the image, the phrase: “You are fighting against a State that does not know the word failure in its dictionary”.