Lionel Messi relative ‘robbed of £18,000 after assault at grocery store’

A cousin of Lionel Messi‘s spouse Antonela Roccuzzo has reportedly been focused by armed robbers.

The feminine relative, named domestically as Agustina Scalia, is alleged to have been transporting over £18,000 in Argentinian pesos from the household grocery store when she was focused.

Media in Messi’s dwelling metropolis of Rosario are reporting the criminals fired a shot on the automobile earlier than fleeing following the violent theft, and footage from the scene present a bullet lodged within the facet of the automobile.

Two assailants are understood to have gotten out of a white automobile with tinted home windows within the metropolis centre and approached the black Chevrolet Onix Agustina and two others had been travelling in. 

They then smashed the window and grabbed two luggage crammed with money, earlier than working off.  

Fortunately no-one was significantly injured, though the occupants of the Chevrolet had been handled for shock.

The feminine relative of Lionel Messi (pictured), named domestically as Agustina Scalia, is alleged to have been transporting almost £20,000 in Argentinian pesos from the household grocery store

Agustina Scalia is the cousin of Lionel Messi’s spouse Antonela Roccuzzo (pictured)

Police are nonetheless investigating the theft, and instructed native media that they haven’t dominated out {that a} second automobile was concerned. 

The shock assault comes simply months after gunmen attacked the grocery store in Rosario owned by Antonela’s household, referred to as Supermercado Unico and managed by certainly one of her cousins, and left a chilling message for the soccer star.

One of two males on a bike was caught on CCTV strolling as much as the premises and firing repeatedly at steel shutters over the home windows and entrance door.

More than half a dozen photographs had been fired on the grocery store.

The attackers left a handwritten message on the scene which stated in reference to Rosario’s main Pablo Javkin: ‘Messi Javkin isn’t going to take care of you.’

An area TV station which reported on the assault claimed on the time the message instructed criminals could also be attempting to extort cash from the previous Barcelona footballer.

Mauricio Macri, an Argentinian businessman who served because the South American nation’s president from 2015 to 2019, described the March incident as horrible and supplied his assist to the footballer and his spouse.

Referring to Lionel by his shortened title of Leo, as he’s higher recognized in his homeland and different Spanish-speaking international locations, and alluding to the drug-fuelled violence in Rosario, he tweeted: ‘This is horrible.

‘Another warning to the nationwide authorities and the federal government of Santa Fe that you just can not co-exist with narcos.

‘They should be firmly fought.’

Messi owns an enormous mansion on the outskirts of Rosario referred to as ‘The Fortress.’

The monster property, constructed on three adjoining plots of land in a gated non-public property, has an enormous cinema, health club and underground storage with sufficient house for 15 automobiles.

He married his spouse Antonela in a glitzy marriage ceremony at Rosario’s City Centre Hotel and Casino in June 2017.

Guests included former Man City striker Sergio Aguero and Barcelona supervisor Xavi Hernandez.

More to observe.