To Prison The Brother Of Messi

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Bad news for the family of soccer star Leo Messi, after the Argentine authorities issued an order of preventive detention against his older brother, who now must remain behind bars for twenty days.

According to various media outlets, Matías Horacio Messi, 35, is being investigated for allegedly carrying a 380 caliber pistol that was loaded.

The facts emerge from a strange incident carried out by the brother of La Pulga last Thursday, when his boat docked at a dock of the Fighiera fishermen's club, on the Paraná river.

According to testimonies, Messi's brother - who has had previous friction with the law - had a bloody face covered with cuts, and asked for help from a guard, who when seeing that the boat showed traces of blood on the deck alerted the authorities.

Messi assured that he had been injured when colliding with a sandbank, but a police investigation revealed the presence of a weapon similar to one that had already been seized before and without the corresponding permission, the Spanish newspaper El País reported.

Complicating the case, expert reports showed that the blood present in the boat did not belong to the brother of the soccer star and now it is suspected that there is something else behind all this.

Messi remains in the Rosario City Park sanatorium, where he is treated for "serious facial trauma", according to the Argentine newspaper El Clarín, which also released photos of the authorities of the boat bloody with the weapon.

For now, the prison order will not take effect until December 23. The defense of the brother of the soccer star could also request that the place where he must comply with his preventive confinement be changed.

Regardless, the investigations continue and if the accusations are ratified and a ruling is received against him, Messi would face a minimum sentence of 3 years and 6 months in prison, according to the local criminal code, the same South American newspaper reported.