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Argentine striker Ángel Di María received a threat at his family home on the outskirts of Rosario early Monday morning, local media reported, amid a wave of drug-related violence in the city where Lionel Messi is also from. .
The message comes a week after Di María, who currently plays for Portuguese champions Benfica, said he would like to finish his career at his boyhood club Rosario Central.
Local media reported that a car left a sign in front of the private neighborhood where the 36-year-old usually stays addressed to the Di María family saying that not even provincial governor Maximiliano Pullaro could guarantee his safety if he returned to the city.
‘Tell your son Ángel not to return to Rosario because we are going to kill a family member. Not even Pullaro is going to save you.
‘We don’t leave paper notes. We left behind bullets and dead people,’ the message reads, according to the Infobae news portal, citing police sources.
Ángel Di María’s family has received death threats for his possible return to Rosario
Di María’s parents were reportedly told that the attackers would “kill a family member” if he returned.
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Rosario, home to one of the largest agricultural port centers in the world, has experienced an intense increase in violence by drug trafficking groups, since the city is, according to experts, a possible outlet for illegal drugs to other countries.
Esteban Santantino, who works in security for the local government, told the Todo Noticias channel: “These types of threats bring a lot of social commotion and that is their objective: to scare the population, to hit public figures.”
Di María left his boyhood club in 2007 after making 36 appearances for Rosario Central, before joining Benfica, where he made 125 appearances in three years.
He then left Portugal to join Real Madrid, before moving on to Manchester United, PSG, Juventus and then returning to Benfica.
Argentine and Rosario-born captain Lionel Messi was also threatened in a letter last year after unidentified gunmen attacked a supermarket owned by his wife Antonela Roccuzzo’s family.
In March, a man on a motorcycle was caught on CCTV walking towards the facility in Rosario, Messi’s hometown, about 180 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, and repeatedly shooting at the metal shutters on the windows and the front door.
Lionel Messi and Antonela Roccuzzo were similarly threatened by thugs in March last year.
Fourteen shots were reportedly fired at the supermarket.
The attackers are also said to have left a handwritten message at the scene which read: “Messi, Javkin is not going to take care of you.”
Pablo Javkin is the current mayor of Rosario, the largest city in the central province of Santa Fe.
The Argentine government said last week that it will send a bill to Congress to allow the armed forces to intervene in internal security operations to combat drug trafficking and crime in Rosario.
