Antonella Roccuzzo’s family suffers a million-dollar robbery in Rosario with shots fired in the middle of the street

2023-11-23 00:15:52

This Wednesday, a group of criminals attacked the family of Antonela Roccuzzo, wife of the captain of the Argentine national team, Lionel Messi, to steal 8,000,000 million pesos ($22,443) in the city of Rosario (northeast).

This is Roccuzzo’s cousin, Agustina Scaglia, who was intercepted along with an employee of the family supermarket, when they were traveling in a black Chevrolet Onix model car to deposit the money in the bank.

After traveling ten blocks from the “Supermercado Único”, owned by Messi’s in-laws, a white vehicle with tinted windows ran parallel to Scaglia’s car and tried to intercept it. The woman guessed the maneuver and tried to escape to avoid the collision. heist.

While accelerating, Roccuzzo’s cousin ran into a second car that prevented her from maneuvering, at which point one of the thieves fired a shot at the rear window of the Onix to force her to stop driving. At that moment, two people got out of the white vehicle, broke the windows and stole the bags with money that the victim had.

“They left the supermarket to make a deposit and in less than ten blocks this car approaches them, they break the glass and go straight to the backpacks,” the head of the radio command of the Rosario Police, Darío Santamaría, told the television channel. Rosary 3.

For the police, this was not a “random” event, but rather the thieves knew what they were looking for, which is why the family and other supermarket employees have been questioned. “We are taking interviews to see who knew about this movement,” Santamaría added.

For its part, the Rosario Regional Prosecutor’s Office considered that two vehicles had participated in the qualified robbery, although the characteristics of the case “are preserved.”

This is the second incident of insecurity suffered by the family of Messi’s wife, after last March the store recorded a shooting and the delivery of a threat to the soccer star: “Messi, we are waiting for you. (The mayor of Rosario , Pablo) Javkin is a narco, he is not going to take care of you.” On that occasion, 14 shots were fired at the front of the supermarket and the case remains under judicial investigation.