A grocery retailer owned by Lionel Messi‘s in-laws was shot up by two males who fired no less than a dozen pictures into the store in Argentina, earlier than sending an ominous menace to the soccer legend … “Messi, we’re ready for you.”

The Unico grocery store is situated in Rosario, Argentina — about 200 miles from the capital, Buenos Aires — and is owned by the mother and pa of Lionel’s spouse, Antonela Roccuzzo. A traditional day of buying groceries was interrupted Thursday when two assailants pulled up in entrance of the shop on a motorbike in broad daylight, with one of many males leaping off the bike, and opening hearth, in response to witnesses.

Miraculously, nobody was injured … although property was broken, together with a shattered entrance window pane.

Maybe the scariest half … after unloading on the shop, the lads dropped a written word that threatened the 35-year-old World Cup champion.

“Messi, we’re ready for you. Javkin can be a drug trafficker, so he gained’t care for you.”

Javkin is Rosario Mayor Pablo Javkin.

Shortly after the violent incident, Mayor Javkin went to the scene and criticized Argentina’s nationwide police for failing to reign in drug-related crimes.

Native police officers additionally spoke, and regardless of the seemingly menacing message, they are saying this was probably an try to “entice consideration,” versus a menace.

Narco violence has been on the rise in Argentina, and Rosario, particularly, has seen a giant leap in drug-related murders. In actual fact, final 12 months the Buenos Aires Instances wrote, “narco violence plaguing town has reached ‘crucial’ ranges.”