Assassins send threatening letter to Lionel Messi.
It was a potent threat aimed at Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi. Early Thursday morning, unidentified gunmen fired shots at a supermarket owned by Messi’s wife’s family in the Argentine port city of Rosario. In addition, the perpetrators wrote a handwritten message to the soccer world champion. It said, among other things: Messi we are waiting for you. Also that he could not expect any help from the mayor of the city, who was a member of a drug cartel. A witness reported two perpetrators who came on a motorcycle. They fired more than a dozen bullets at the metal facade of the. According to the police, no one was injured. At the time in question there were no people on the premises of the supermarket. Officials blamed organized crime for the incident. The aim of the attack was to create chaos in the city. Rosario is one of the drug trafficking centers in Argentina. The homicide rate in the city is one of the highest in the country. Messi was named world footballer for the seventh time earlier this week. At the World Cup in Qatar, he won the world championship with the Argentine national team.
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