"Everyone is going to die
: Pullaro, Milei, Messi, Di Maria. You can't mess with the mafia."
This threat does not exist.
I just invented it.
But it could well appear written on a piece of paper with poor handwriting anywhere in the city of
Rosario.
It is the marketing of terror that seeks to reach television screens and the covers of newspapers.
And most of the time he succeeds.
For years, Rosario prosecutors and officials - at least a good part of them - have agreed to
give as few details as possible about the threats they suffer.
They consider - who can blame them? - that a good part of the letters that appear in strategic places do not imply a real plan of attack and only seek to be
reproduced to create a social atmosphere of total anxiety.
In the midst of an investigation into his assets, Esteban Lindor Alvarado - a drug lord now imprisoned and sentenced to life - sent one of his men to
throw the head of a horse at the house of the judicial official
who was studying his money laundering operations. cocaine.
This Monday morning they left a threatening message against Angel Di María in front of the gated community where he stays when he travels to Rosario.
Photo: AFP
He wanted it to appear in the newspapers, and in the process incriminate two people who had betrayed him in the act.
However, his errand boy only got the head of a dog, so no one reported on the episode.
How did it end?: Alvarado, determined to get his message out in the media, sent the hitman to shoot up the official's house and one of the bullets almost killed his grandmother, who was sleeping in one of the rooms.
He did not do it as retaliation against the official - to whom he later apologized -: he did it
for the impact he was going to have.
Today Rosario is experiencing a wave of violence in which one or several groups - drug traffickers, police, who knows - send messages.
From ordering the killing of innocent people, a fact that no one can ignore or hide, to littering the streets with threatening letters with a lower or higher grammatical level.
And at this point it becomes more difficult to know what to do.
Does reproducing a threatening letter that is intended for the press and not so much for the supposed victim make us, as journalists, part of a game clearly designed by the "bad guys"?
I don't know, at least you have to
stop for a second and think about it.
S.C.