Gunmen Shoot Up Store Owned By Lionel Messi’s Family, Threaten Soccer Legend

A grocery retailer owned by Lionel Messi‘s in-laws was shot up by two males who fired not less than a dozen pictures into the store in Argentina, earlier than sending an ominous menace to the soccer legend … “Messi, we’re waiting for you.”

The Unico grocery store is situated in Rosario, Argentina — about 200 miles from the capital, Buenos Aires — and is owned by the mother and pa of Lionel’s spouse, Antonela Roccuzzo. A standard day of buying groceries was interrupted Thursday when two assailants pulled up in entrance of the shop on a bike in broad daylight, with one of many males leaping off the bike, and opening hearth, based on witnesses.

Miraculously, nobody was injured … although property was broken, together with a shattered entrance window pane.

Perhaps the scariest half … after unloading on the shop, the boys dropped a written observe that threatened the 35-year-old World Cup champion.

“Messi, we’re ready for you. Javkin can also be a drug trafficker, so he received’t care for you.”

Javkin is Rosario Mayor Pablo Javkin.

Shortly after the violent incident, Mayor Javkin went to the scene and criticized Argentina’s nationwide police for failing to reign in drug-related crimes.

Local police officers additionally spoke, and regardless of the seemingly menacing message, they are saying this was possible an try and “attract attention,” versus a menace.

Narco violence has been on the rise in Argentina, and Rosario, particularly, has seen an enormous soar in drug-related murders. In reality, final yr the Buenos Aires Times wrote, “narco violence plaguing the city has reached ‘critical’ levels.”