For some time now drug violence and insecurity in Rosario
crossed the limit,
with resounding crimes that are repeated daily, shootings, deaths between gangs but also murders of innocent men, women and even children.
But the attack yesterday with 14 bullets that went through the blinds of the Unico supermarket, owned by Lionel Messi's father-in-law,
caused a strong commotion and deepened the controversy over what is done, and what is not, from the highest national authorities
to control violence. of organized crime in Rosario, and in the province of Santa Fe.
The attack occurred at 2:53 in the morning and the security cameras showed
two people who fled on a motorcycle in the wrong direction
after executing the action.
Police recovered a dozen pods.
There was no prior threat, Antonella Rocuzzo's father said.
“The first objective of those who did this was for the whole world to find out.
They sought public impact
.
There is nothing to indicate that they wanted to intimidate or demand anything from the Roccuzzo family.
They used something close to Lionel Messi to ensure a wide spread.
And with that the message reached the whole world”, evaluated the prosecutor Federico Rébola, of the Shooting Unit of the Rosario Regional Prosecutor's Office.
He also admitted that they had no
concrete leads on the perpetrators.
To all this, the journalist Maite Peñoñori posted a message from Celia María Cuccittini, Messi's mother:
“We are fine, it was in Anto's father's supermarket.
We never moved with custody, we lead a normal life
," she told him.
The shooters left a handwritten message that is being examined, threatening the Argentine captain and the mayor Pablo Javkin:
“Messi we are waiting for you.
Javkin is a narco, he is not going to take care of you ”.
The Rosario mayor, who has been making strong demands for greater assistance from national forces, protested energetically.
“I spoke with the Minister of Security and the Governor (Peronist Omar Perotti), I want them here.
How far is the President from here?
Half an hour, right?”
Javkin wondered.
"To Rosario there is not a damn of concrete help,"
he said excitedly.
Shortly after, from Salta, where he led an event, Alberto Fernández maintained that "we are doing a lot, but obviously
something more will have to be done"
in Rosario, and he said that he had communicated with Javkin.
The mayor belongs to the Progressive Front and has a strained relationship with Perotti, as does the governor with Fernández, with whom he met alone in mid-February at the Casa Rosada to ask him for more resources and to "get involved" with what is happening
. in the province.
In the political intricacies, Alberto now has Agustín Rossi, from Rosario and Perotti's rival in the Santa Fe internship, as his chief of staff.
Aníbal Fernández, questioned
Another controversy was opened by the reaction of the Minister of Security, Aníbal Fernández.
"The drug traffickers won, but the situation must be reversed
," he said.
Last night, after 9:00 p.m. at the end of a meeting of the Provincial Security Board, Governor Perotti expressed the "total and unanimous repudiation" of all the participants to the expressions of Aníbal F. and demanded from the central government "greater federal presence,
of effective and logistics and resources".
In December, Aníbal F. had had a strong clash with the province when, on a visit to Rosario, he stated that “crimes began to grow 20 years ago.
They don't want to blame it on the government, Santa Fe should have resolved it without the federal forces."
Mauricio Macri was one of the opposition leaders who spoke out.
From his twitter account, he described the fact as "terrible" and stated that "you cannot live with the drug dealer.
It must be fought decisively.
At the end of the year this begins to change.
All my support to Leo, Antonela and their families ”, he expressed.
This happens after militant Kirchner journalists came out to harshly criticize Messi and Emiliano Dibu Martínez for the photo they took with their partners and Macri, head of the FIFA Foundation, after the delivery of The Best awards last Monday, in Paris. .
In Congress, from Together for Change and also the Santa Fe socialists - who governed the province for 12 years - questioned Aníbal F. and blamed Cristina Kirchner for stopping the bicameral commission to reform the Criminal Procedure Code in the Senate, preventing progress in judicial mechanisms to attack the narco.
The attack against Messi's in-laws super had wide repercussions in the world press.
And it resignified what happened this week in Congress, where Alberto Fernández before the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday unusually sought to hold the Supreme Court responsible for the failure to appoint federal judges in Santa Fe.
But already in the session of Deputies on Tuesday for the pension reform, Juan Martín (UCR) from Santa Fe warned in a dramatic tone for the "escalation of violence", asked for the questioning of Aníbal F. and exhibited pictures showing that Santa Fe is 14th
in the ranking of execution of the Interior security budget:
$6,599 million in 2022, below much smaller provinces and without serious problems with drug trafficking.
"The government leaves the province helpless
," denounced Martín.
From the ruling party itself, deputy Roberto Mirabella, Perotti's right-hand man and one of those seeking to succeed him, also demanded “that the National Government take a more active participation.
Today the Minister of Security should be living in Rosario to lead and lead the forces that fight drug trafficking," said Mirabella, warning that "we are
the province that receives the lowest security budget per inhabitant from the National Ministry of Security." .