Global Courant 2023-05-16 17:22:45
In the footage you can see how dozens of people threw themselves to the ground inside the minishop and tried to escape body to ground.
Dozens of people throwing themselves to the ground, getting under the tables and trying to escape face to face. They are dramatic scenes that are seen in a video that lasts one minute and shows how fear seized a service station in Rosario, which was attacked with bullets. A 4-year-old girl and her mother, 44, were injured.
The shooting at a YPF located on Calle Moreno and Avenida Arijón, in the Las Delicias neighborhood in southern Rosario, occurred on Friday around 11:20 p.m. And in the last hours, images recorded from inside the minishop appeared.
Shooting begins 20 seconds into filming. At the time, at least 10 people were inside the venue, some of them sitting and eating. A young man, dressed in a blue jacket, had his back to one of the windows that was left with bullet holes.
In a matter of seconds, he turned and fell to the ground like the rest of the diners who were trying to hide under the tables. Others chose to escape from the place lying on the ground.
As a result of the shooting, a woman and her 4-year-old daughter who were shopping at the store were injured.
The attack and the mafia message
At the time of the attack there were two police officers from the 21st section, located near the YPF, where they left a note with the text “don’t mess with the mafia.”
The shots, which hit the windows of the minimarket, were fired by at least two people who arrived at the scene the wrong way on Calle Moreno aboard a Honda Tornado motorcycle and opened fire on the business premises and then escaped in that same vehicle.
The Scientific Police collected ten pods served at the scene of the shooting and a note with the text “don’t screw with the mafia”, similar to those left in identical previous attacks.
As a result of the attack, a 44-year-old woman suffered a gunshot wound to her right arm with an entry and exit wound. Her 4-year-old daughter was shot in the leg. They are out of danger. Both were transferred to the Roque Sáenz Peña Hospital and received emergency treatment.
Although the two policemen were shopping inside the premises, it was not yet established in the investigation that they were the recipients of the attack.
It was not the first time
Gas stations have already been targeted. Photo: Juan Jose Garcia.
A series of shooting attacks against Rosario service stations occurred at the end of 2021, which caused the sale of fuel at night. It was in November, when in just one week six were attacked in different parts of Rosario.
At that time, the official hypothesis spoke of a plan to generate “public intimidation” before the elections. It is that the last attack had occurred a little more than 24 hours after the legislative ones, which in turn began with two attacks against schools in Rosario.
Although it could be an extortion modality, none of the owners of the attacked businesses had received previous threats or a request for money.
One of the lines of investigation pointed once again against Ariel “Guille” Cantero, the leader of the “Los Monos” gang convicted in multiple cases.
