Argentina ahead Angel Di Maria acquired a menace at his household house on the outskirts of Rosario, home media stated, amid an intense wave of drug-related violence within the central metropolis from which Lionel Messi additionally hails.
Monday’s message, following an identical menace final 12 months to Argentine captain Messi, got here every week after Di Maria, now enjoying for Portuguese champions Benfica, stated he wish to finish his profession at his boyhood membership, Rosario Central.
“Inform your son Angel to not come again to Rosario as a result of we’ll kill a member of the family,” the message learn, in accordance with the information portal Infobae, which cited police sources.
“Not even Pullaro goes to avoid wasting you,” it added, referring to the provincial governor, Maximiliano Pullaro. “We don’t go away paper notes. We go away bullets and lifeless folks behind.”
(FILES) View of the gated neighborhood Funes Hill Miraflores the place Argentine footballer Angel Di Maria and his household normally keep when visiting Argentina and the place different members of the family together with his mom reside, in Santa Fe, Argentina.
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(FILES) View of the gated neighborhood Funes Hill Miraflores the place Argentine footballer Angel Di Maria and his household normally keep when visiting Argentina and the place different members of the family together with his mom reside, in Santa Fe, Argentina.
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Media stated the motivation for the threats stays unclear, nevertheless, with police unable to discard any potential traces of investigation.
Police didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters e-mail in search of remark.
A automotive left an indication carrying the message addressed to the Di Maria household in entrance of the personal neighbourhood the place the 36-year-old normally stays, media stated.
Di Maria will begin in Tuesday’s pleasant recreation in opposition to Costa Rica, Argentina supervisor Lionel Scaloni informed reporters afterward Monday.
“Di Maria is aware of that he has our full help for no matter he wants. The necessary factor is that he performs, that can calm down him a bit.”
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Rosario, one of many world’s largest agro-port hubs, is awash in violence as drug-trafficking teams have been lured by its attraction, specialists say, as an outlet for unlawful medicine to be despatched to different international locations.
Final 12 months’s menace to Messi adopted an assault by unidentified gunmen on a grocery store owned by the household of his spouse, Antonella Roccuzzo.
Final week, the Argentine authorities stated it will ship a invoice to Congress to permit the armed forces to intervene in inner safety operations to combat drug trafficking and crime in Rosario.