” frameBorder=”0″ class=”dcr-ivsjvk”> The victims included a petrol station worker and father, Bruno Bussanich, 25, who was shot three times at close range. Near his body a note addressed officials. “We don’t want to negotiate anything. We want our rights,” it said. “We will kill more innocent people.” Such notes have become a feature of Rosario’s gang disputes. In 2023, even the in-laws of the footballer Lionel Messi, who own a supermarket in the city, were targeted. Assailants fired 14 shots at the store and left a note reading: “Messi, we’re waiting for you.” Experts say the increasing flow of drugs through the city has also led to the “intense recruitment” of children. “Twenty years ago, football teams took the children to make them professionals, but now the gangs take the children,” says Gabriela Meglio, a deputy secretary of Amsafe Rosario, a teachers’ union. Luis Schiappa Pietra, an organised crime prosecutor, said the children on trial were getting “younger and younger”. “Now they are 14, 15 – mostly poor boys who want an identity, to …