Shooter who woke Messi in Rosario acted with balaclava, mask and gloves: Justice suspects

One day after the shooting at the Único supermarket belonging to the family of Antonela Roccuzzo and the threatening message for the captain of the Argentinian team Lionel Messi, at the center of the investigation of the prosecutor of the Fusillades Federico Rébola put the accent on all the precautions taken by the author of the 14 shots against the premises to cover himself at the time of committing the attack. The shooting was filmed by several CCTV cameras in the 2500 block of Lavalle, in the western district of Rosario, which allowed us to have an image of the hitman who fired 14 times against the door of the company and handed over the note where he even mentioned the mayor Pablo Javkin, a gesture typical of the recent history of the hitman Rosario narco. The shooter did not act alone: ​​another man aboard a Titan motorcycle was his driver.

The prosecutor in charge of the case was struck by the fact that the two occupants of the motorcycle were dressed in the same way: jeans, jacket with hood and chinstrap, in the middle of a 90 degree heat wave. In the case of the author of the fourteen shots, a peculiarity is also noticeable in the videos, it is that he used gloves at all times to handle the sign left at the door of the supermarket and to trigger the trigger. It is unusual: in Rosario, gunmen shoot in the openas happened in the October 2022 attack on the Federal Justice Buildings.

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Although there is no clear guess as to who carried out the attack, Rébola ordered to examine the message written on a piece of a bag of charcoalwhich read “Messi, we are waiting for you. Javkin is also a drug dealer, he will not deal with you”. It has already been checked against other posters found at other homicide scenes in Rosario. For the moment, it does not correspond according to the calligraphic expertise.

These mentioned characteristics are generally not seen in the sadly common shootings committed in Rosario, whether in contexts of extortion or murder: those who shoot are more rustic, they are less careful and they even tend to leave posters with very poor spelling and syntax at filming locations.

For the time being, prosecutor Rébola has specified that the owners of the supermarket They have not received any previous threats or extortion. Yesterday, after changing the shot glasses, the store ran normally. The government minister Celia Arena said yesterday the shooting was about to happen “an act of a terrorist nature”.

Prosecutor Rébola issued a similar opinion. “Clearly, The first objective of those who did this was for the whole world to discover. They sought public impact. There is no indication that they wanted to intimidate or demand anything from the Roccuzzo family. They used something close to Lionel Messi to ensure wide distribution. And, with that, the message reached the whole world,” he said in statements to the newspaper. The capital by Rosario.

The hypotheses in the air are multiple: internal bar, internal even political, even internal between factions of Los Monos. “We have nothing concrete. It is very obvious that what was wanted was to shoot a super Messi not to threaten his entourage, but to ensure a strong diffusion”, explained the prosecutor.

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