On Wednesday night, 14 bullets were fired at the closed metal shutter of a supermarket belonging to the family of Antonella Roccuzzo, wife of Argentina captain Lionel Messi. A card was left behind by the assailants, two men on motorbikes who fled, with a threatening but enigmatic handwritten message: “Messi, we are waiting for you, Javkin (Mayor of Rosario, editor’s note) is a narco, he won’t care about you“.
The prosecutor in charge of the case, Federico Rebola, confirmed that “the first objective (of the attack), clearly, is that the whole world knows about it. What they were looking for is public impact“. “There is no indication that they wanted to intimidate or demand anything from the Roccuzzo family. They used someone close to Lionel Messi to secure a big spread“, he told the Rosarino newspaper The capital.
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Mayor Pablo Javkin (centre), also noted that there was nothing behind the incident, “no request for money, for anything for the benefit of anyone. During narco attacks, messages always carry a threat to generate a profit for someone, in detention“, he explained in reference to similar shots aimed at businesses, or businesses.
Complaints of businesses for attempted extortion are on the rise in Rosario and in the province, often directed from prisons, according to justice. A raid on Wednesday at a prison in Coronda resulted in the seizure of 50 mobile phones, 275 doses of drugs, preparation equipment. Other raids on Friday targeted prisons in the province of Buenos Aires.
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Rosario, Argentina’s third largest city (1 million inhabitants) has become a hotspot for drug trafficking in recent years, and the city with the highest number of homicides in the country (287 in 2022). Observers point out that drug trafficking remains the result of “neighborhood bands, not formed into a cartel“.
M. Javkin said “doubt“of a narco signature behind the attack, and suggested that the message”sale“whoever appoints him could seek to harm him. He has designs on the post of governor of the province, and the three levels of authority (municipal, provincial, national) from different political sides, regularly blame each other on the insecurity in Rosario, and worse since Wednesday.
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