After a supermarket belonging to the family of Antonella Roccuzzo, wife of Lionel Messi, was shot and threats were left for the player, the governor of Santa Fe, Omar Perotti, will be received this Friday at the Casa Rosada.
The provincial president will meet with the Minister of the Interior, Wado de Pedro, and the Chief of Staff, Agustín Rossi, with whom Omar Perotti He hopes to talk about the difficult situation in Rosario, after the escalation of violence in recent months.
Although the meeting Omar Perotti with the ministers was scheduled since before the shooting this Thursday, it will serve to take measures to strengthen security in Rosario.
In this sense, the Governor and the Minister of the Interior will sign an agreement that will enable the security forces of the province to use the SIS (Secure Identification System) and financing for the acquisition of 600 state-of-the-art facial recognition surveillance cameras for the city.
In this way, with the support of technology, the Government intends that the police of Rosario and Santa Fe can carry out the biometric identification of suspects, fugitives or people with criminal records.
The governor He has repeatedly asked for greater support from the Nation to face the wave of violence in Rosario, which is becoming more acute every day and which this Thursday involved Messi’s family.
For his part, President Alberto Fernández stated yesterday: “We are doing a lot, but obviously there are many more things to do because in Rosario the problem of violence and organized crime is very serious.”
What does the governor ask for?
The provincial president asks the State for “greater federal presence, troops, logistics and resources” for the provinceespecially in Santa Fe, where so far in 2023 58 people have been murdered.
In addition, he hopes that the national government will implement forceful measures to put an end to drug trafficking gangs in the city, since the escalation of the situation does not give up.
