Riots broke out in Rosario, in the northeast Argentinabetween police and residents who had raided the homes of people involved in what they claimed was a shootout between rival trafficking gangs drugsas a result to lose a child’s life.
Police used plastic bullets to disperse a rock-throwing crowd that had begun tearing down the walls of a small, brick house in a working-class district of the city, television footage showed.
Police officers took the occupant out of the house. The house was then ransacked, with those gathered taking furniture, electrical items and toys. The neighbors continued to demolish it, with sledgehammers. Another house was engulfed in flames, however, with the timely intervention of the fire department, the fire did not reach proportions.
The local security minister, Claudio Brigioni, told reporters that the incidents reflected the public’s anger against drug traffickers. On the night of Saturday to Sunday, in an exchange of fire, four children between the ages of 2 and 14 were injured. One of them, an 11-year-old boy, Maximo Jeres, later succumbed to his injuries.
“There is a battle for control of the area, between a local group and another that came from elsewhere to control the traffic”, said the prosecutor Adrian Spelta, who has undertaken the investigation of the case. The attackers fired from inside a car and hit the four children, who were playing “close to the person who had been targeted,” he added. According to Argentine media, some of these children had gone to a nearby kiosk to buy refreshments when the thugs started shooting at them.
Rosario, Argentina’s third most populous city, has become a crossroads for drug trafficking in recent years. At the same time, it has become one of the most dangerous cities in the country: in 2022 alone, there were 287 homicides, five times the average for the rest of the country. Recently, a shop belonging to the family of Lionel Messi’s wife, Antonella Roccozzo, was attacked with 14 bulletswhile the perpetrators also left a message for the Argentine superstar of Paris Saint-Germain.
Source: News Beast
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