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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine striker Angel Di Maria won a risk at his family’s home on the outskirts of Rosario early on Monday, local media reported, amid a wave of drug-related violence in the town where Lionel Messi is also from.
The post comes a week after Di Maria, who lately plays for Portuguese champions Benfica, said he would like to continue his career at his boyhood club Rosario Central.
According to local media, a car left a sign in front of the personal community where the 36-year-old is staying, addressed to the Di Maria family, saying that not even the governor of the province, Maximiliano Pullaro, could guarantee his protection if he returned to the city.
“Tell your son Angel not to go back to Rosario because we’re going to kill a relative. Not even Pullaro would save you. We don’t leave paper notes. We left the bullets and the dead,” the message reads, according to the news portal Infobae, citing police sources.
Rosario, one of the world’s largest agro-port hubs, has noticed a sharp rise in violence by drug trafficking groups, as the city is, according to experts, a potential outlet for illegal drugs to other countries.
Argentina’s captain Lionel Messi, who was born in Rosario, also threatened in a letter last year after unidentified gunmen attacked a supermarket owned by his wife Antonela Roccuzzo’s family.
The Argentine government announced last week that it would send a bill to Congress to allow the armed forces to interfere in internal security operations aimed at combating drug trafficking and crime in Rosario.
(Reporting by Maximilian Heath; writing by Janina Nuno Rios; editing by Nicolas Misculin and Costas Pitas)
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