Threats and gunfire are made towards Lionel Messi

A family-owned grocery in Lionel Messi’s native Rosario, Argentina, was shot and threatened by masked attackers. Messi is a superstar for Paris Saint-Germain.

The attackers left a note saying, “Messi, we’re waiting for you,” according to Metro, even though the Argentina international wasn’t there when it happened.

The message from the shooters claimed that the mayor of Rosario, Pablo Javkin, is also a drug dealer and won’t look out for you.

They arrived on a motorcycle, two of the gunmen. At the supermarket owned by Antonella Roccuzzo, a relative of Messi’s wife, they exchanged gunfire, but no one was hurt.

On social media, Santa Fe province’s judicial minister Celia Arena responded to the attack,

‘With the mafia attack on the Roccuzzo family’s business, knowing that it will be an event of global significance, the purpose is to [plant] terror in the population and disquiet in those of us who are in the war against criminal violence,’ she said in a post. The definition of terrorism is what it is, nothing more, nothing less.