Celia, Messi's mother, spoke of the drug threat against Leo: "It surprises us, they never bothered us and we always go around the city without custody"

This Thursday, Rosario woke up in a state of alarm.

Once again, the drug traffickers put the title on the front page of the newspapers.

A shooting against the front of an empty supermarket and a note addressed to one of the most popular people in Argentina and the entire planet: "

. Javkin is a drug trafficker, he will not take care of you...", it said. the message written on a cardboard.

It happened in the early hours of the morning: two men shot at a business that belongs to the family of Antonela Roccuzzo.

The news shook the national and provincial authorities.

And the reactions in the world of football were not long in coming.

But of course the most searched word was that of the Messi family.

And the seriousness of the event caused the soccer player's mother to respond by message to the query from some journalists, something that is not usual given the low profile that the entire crack environment manages.

Celia Cuccittini confirmed the situation to the journalist Maite Peñoñori who shared the message on her networks.

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We never moved with custody, we lead a normal life, "Leo's mother replied to the journalist, from the Intruders program.

Despite the insecurity that exists in Rosario, where 288 drug crimes were recorded in 2022, Leo's mother assured that so far the family had not had major problems with the issue.

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. Thank God nothing more serious happened. We are worried. It was an attack on Anto's parents' supermarket, luckily it did not happen older," Celia told journalist Mauro Szeta.

The magnitude of the name that was involved in this threat that includes drug traffickers and politics mobilized voices of all kinds.

Within football,

was one of those who spoke out about the case.

In recent months, after winning the World Cup, Newell's fans had been excited about a possible arrival of the rosarino star at the club of their loves.

However, what happened this morning seems to demolish that version that already sounded like a chimera.

Lionel Messi and his mother Celia during the celebrations for the title in the World Cup in Qatar 2022. Photo: EFE.

“This is not just an attack on Leo, it is an attack on everyone.

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We talk about him for what he is Leo, but there are also many guys who would like to return.

And he also takes you away from many things, ”said the Gringo, who accepted that his return to La Lepra was an act of” unconsciousness ”.

A couple of weeks ago, the DT of Rosario Central,

, had accepted that "the wives of the players do not want to come to live in Rosario."

In the midst of the controversy and, after assuring that "the drug traffickers won", the Minister of National Security, Aníbal Fernández, guaranteed after the attack that if Messi requests personal custody on his return to Argentina (he must play for the National Team on March 23 and 28), he will have it.

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