Police said two men on a motorcycle fired at least a dozen shots into a supermarket in Rosario, Argentina in the early hours of Thursday morning and left a message on a piece of cardboard that read, “Messi, we’re waiting for you. [Rosario mayor Pablo] Javkin is also a drug trafficker, so he won’t take care of you.”
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It was unclear why assailants would target the Argentina star or the supermarket, which is owned by the family of his wife, Antonella Roccuzzo.
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