The mayor of Rosario, Pablo Javkin, responded to Miguel Ángel Russo, who days ago said at a press conference that Rosario Central does not get reinforcements due to the violence that is experienced in the city of Rosario.
“The complications of the pass book were many. We even find wives (of players) who do not want to come to live in Rosario due to the violence and insecurity with which they live. It’s a reality, it’s very hard and it pains me to say it, but we ran into that too”, said ‘Miguelo’.
This Thursday, the community chief considered that the statements of the Canalla coach have no basis since Russo himself lives in Rosario. “A managerial difficulty speaking ill of the city. What I do wrong is my responsibility, not the city’s,” Javkin said on Radio2.
He said that drug trafficking is a problem that crosses the Argentine Republic: “Drugs, weapons, reach us. I refuse to treat it like it’s local made. There are sectors of the capital and the suburbs that are the same or worse than us”.
And he concluded: “This is not a problem that we Rosario originated. We are victims of being a logistical enclave of a country that does not control drug trafficking, does not listen to prisoners in jails, does not focus its work on control. Don’t lie, it doesn’t happen only in Rosario.”
The data that Miguel Ángel Russo echoed is that reported by the local media this year: that in 2022 there was a record number of homicides -287 violent deaths- in Rosario.
