The center of Rosario woke up dismayed by news that impacted the whole world.
An anonymous message with threats to Lionel Messi in a family business of his wife, Antonela Roccuzzo, who was also shot this Thursday at dawn.
It is the
Unico supermarket
, which is located on Lavalle and 27 de Febrero, in the west of the Cuna de la Bandera.
It belongs to José Roccuzzo, Antonela's father.
Unico was founded in 1982. Lele, Rosario's paternal grandmother, was one of its founders.
The business started as a small pantry.
But, with the passage of time, the need arose to be more competitive in the face of the advent of multinationals that landed in Rosario.
The marks of the bullets in the Unico supermarket.
Photo Juan Jose Garcia
In this context,
the business became a supermarket in the 1990s
and the Lavalle and 27 de Febrero premises adopted the name by which it is known today, according to the local newspaper El Ciudadano.
The market grew little by little until it was projected with several branches in different towns in the south of Santa Fe.
In recent years, the Micropack company bought nine branches of the Único supermarkets.
But those premises did not belong to Roccuzzo but to the businessman Mariano Martín.
Antonela's father only keeps the historic branch that was now the target of gunshots.
The businesses that the family had and sold in recent years were distributed in different parts of Rosario, Capitán Bermúdez and Granadero Baigorria, according to "La Capital".
Antonela and Messi this Monday, at the FIFA The Best awards ceremony in Paris.
AP Photo
A legend circulates below.
They say that when Lionel Messi started playing in the big leagues and became a Barcelona star, he proposed to Antonela's father to invest in his supermarket.
"That way you're bigger than Coto," he would have told her.
However, José did not accept the request.
He preferred to keep a low profile and
continue with his local retail
From him.
Mayor Pablo Javkin himself, who was also mentioned in the intimidating note left by the drug gang that shot at the business, defined it as "
a family that has been working in the city for years
, since before Antonela was associated with Messi."
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This is how Antonela Roccuzzo's family super was left after the 14 bullets and the threat against Lionel Messi