Gunmen Threaten Messi, Shoot up Family-Owned Supermarket

Gunmen Threaten Messi, Shoot up Family-Owned Supermarket
Police gather outside the Unico supermarket, a grocery chain owned by soccer player Lionel Messi's in-laws, after it was shot at in Rosario, Argentina, on March 2, 2023. Sebastian Lopez Brach/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Gunmen threatened Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi in a written message left Thursday when they opened fire at a supermarket owned by his in-laws in Argentina, police said.

Nobody was injured in the early morning attack, and it was unclear why assailants would target Messi or the Unico supermarket in the country’s third-largest city of Rosario, owned by the family of his wife, Antonella Roccuzzo.