A group of drug traffickers made direct threats against star of the Argentine national team Lionel Messi, causing a shock wave in his hometown, Rosario, and throughout the country.
The comments of rejection and indignation immediately invaded the public space and the authorities mobilized to provide a response commensurate with the threats that targeted Messi and the attack that targeted a supermarket owned by his in-laws.
At dawn on Thursday, two hooded people on a motorcycle shot up the front of the supermarket and left a sign that read “Messi, we are waiting for you. Javkin (mayor of Rosario) is a drug trafficker. He will not protect you”.
The armed attack followed by the direct threat against Messi set off alarm bells in all security and political sectors.
At the top of the State, a meeting was held on Friday morning between the governor of the State of Santa Fe, on which Rosario depends, Omar Perotti, with the high ministerial hierarchy, including the head of the government, Agustin Rossi, and the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo De Pedro, to define the security measures to be deployed in Messi’s hometown, which has become the epicenter of drug-trafficking in Argentina.
The day before, the minister of security, Anibal Fernandez, had recognized that the events of Rosario revealed a reality: “the narcos won”.
Another security official added to this. The regional minister of security in the province of Buenos Aires, Sergio Berni, estimated that “Rosario has become a zone liberated” by drug trafficking, adding that “the State has abandoned the territory (…) and when there is no State in the territory, it is the parallel State of drug trafficking that takes over”.
Several weeks ago, magistrates in this convulsed region received death threats from drug gangs.
The entire political spectrum reacted to the threats against Messi with expressions of indignation, shock and a call not to give in to the criminals who seek, according to Perotti, to generate a “global impact”.
Prison authorities searched the cells of the leaders of powerful drug cartels in Rosario looking for clues about a possible order given from prison, reports the local press.
The messages relayed on the social networks and the headlines of the press converge towards the “seriousness” of this incident and the unpublished threats made against the idol of all Argentines.
Some reactions have left doubts about the arrival of Messi in Argentina for two friendly matches that the team will play against Panama and Curacao on March 23 and 28.
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