‘The aim was to seek public impact,’ says prosecutor in Antonela Roccuzzo’s family-owned supermarket attack

Federico Rebolathe prosecutor investigating the shooting attack on the supermarket belonging to the family of Antonela RoccuzzoHe said that to date there were no signs of intimidation or claims against the owners of the business and stressed that, in his opinion, the location chosen by the perpetrators of the shooting it was not causalas the perpetrators continued the great repercussion the event caused.

“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.

According to the case information he accessed GlobeLiveMedia, trade officials had not suffered extortion in the previous hours. The attack occurred at 3:20 p.m. on Thursday on Lavalle Street, in the west of the city. At the door of the premises, the radio command of the provincial police found a message addressed to the captain of the Argentine team. “Messi, we are waiting for you. Javkin is also a narco, he won’t take care of you”says the text written in pen on a cardboard, also referring to the mayor of Rosario.

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In the street, 12 pods served were found and in the metal store of the supermarket they were counted. 14 bearings. It is suspected that the attack was committed by two men on a motorcycle and there are several hypotheses about the context, among which it would be linked to barrabravas or a trainee among the drug traffickers of Monkeys.

Rébola limited himself to commenting on the investigation:We have nothing concrete. It’s very obvious that what we were looking for was to shoot a super Messi not to threaten his entourage, but to ensure a strong spread”. What would be the purpose of achieving this impact? Although he did not give more details, the representative of the public prosecutor slipped that “One can deduce from this, logically, that whoever wrote it wants to cause damage to the mayor.”

Maria Eugenia Iribarrenhead of the prosecutors of Rosario, expressed himself in the same direction: “The repercussion of the event was, without a doubt, what those who perpetrated this attack were looking for.. Unfortunately, this is one of the many events that occur with these characteristics in Rosario.

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“I think if the clear intent of criminals is for their messages to get out, we should have a reasonable debate about whether it’s useful to do so through the media or social media. It is not illogical to say that someone has left a message, but to specify its content is precisely to ensure the finality of those who throw it away. I’m not saying that the violence ends like this, but not being functional for the purposes of those who do these things makes senseconcluded Rébola.

The episode generated a stir and led to crossovers between government authorities and opposition critics and proposals. President Alberto Fernandez He referred to what happened during an act in Salta. “Today I woke up to very bad news. I immediately contacted the mayor (Pablo Javkin), I spoke immediately with the chief of staff. I told him that something else had to be done. We do a lot but Of course, something else will have to be done. The problem of violence and organized crime is very serious.he stated.

Mayor Javkin made a public claim. He demanded answers from national officials and addressed the Head of State: “It is very clear that it is easy to hurt Rosario and that there is no concrete help for Rosario. How far is the president from here, half an hour? Come here those who have the responsibility. I am the mayor of the City, I do not manage the security forces and when I asked, they did not let me”.

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After that came the testimony of Hannibal Fernandezwho assured that they had been working for a year to reverse a very difficult situation, but admitted that “the narcos won” because in Rosario it “happened 20 years ago”.

The Minister of Nation’s Security stressed that what happened today was “a typical police act” of those that took place in this region two decades ago”, but stressed that the government national is working with all its might to modify a process that is too complex scenario: “It took 20 years to install, it will not uninstall in 20 minutes…”. In this sense, he announced as a first measure the change command of the head of federal forces in Rosario.

*Photos: Leonardo Galletto

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