Gunmen threaten Messi, shoot up family-owned supermarket

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Gunmen threatened Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi in a written message left Thursday when they opened fire at a supermarket owned by his in-laws in Argentina, police said.

Nobody was injured in the early morning attack, and it was unclear why assailants would target Messi or the Unico supermarket in the country’s third-largest city of Rosario, owned by the family of his wife, Antonella Roccuzzo.

The city’s mayor, Pablo Javkin, went to the supermarket and lashed out at federal authorities over what he called their failure to curb a surge in drug-related violence in Rosario, located about 190 miles (300 kilometers) northwest of the capital of Buenos Aires.

Police said two men on a motorcycle fired at least a dozen shots into an Unico branch in the early hours, leaving a message on carboard that read, “Messi, we’re waiting for you. Javkin is also a drug trafficker, so he won’t take care of you.”

https://apnews.com/article/messi-supermarket-attack-gunmen-rosario-bullets-ce420f9d5d0daa06c3faccb8838b32d9

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1. It's an election year in Argentina - and the RW isn't above using gangs false-flag attacks

One of the RW front-runners, former Security Minister Patricia Bullrich (under Trump pal Macri), was already caught pulling a similar stunt during the last election in 2019 - as part of the d'Alessiogate scandal that year:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/110866492

That said, Rosario is indeed Argentina's most crime-ridden city, with a murder rate last year of around 18 per 100,000 (4 times the national average).

Known locally as the "Argentine Chicago," crime is likewise highest in the city's southside - where Messi grew up, as it happens.

That said, it mostly is a nice - if melancholy - city.