By Erwin Quiñonez
07 Mar 2024, 20:40 PM EST
The impact that Leo Messi has generated in the world has surpassed levels never thought possible, even in situations that may seem like life or death, such as the case of a 90-year-old Argentine woman who was saved from being kidnapped by members of Hamas in Israel. , after mentioning the name of the footballer.
Ester Cunio is the name of the protagonist of this terrifying episode, who managed to avoid going through what would have been one of the worst moments of her life, after members of the aforementioned terrorist organization forcibly entered her house and tried to take her away. . How did she save herself? Because she was “where Messi is from.”
“They knocked on my door and two came in and asked me where my family was. I told them that she ‘lived alone’ and then they told me: ‘you’re coming with us, this is all going to be on fire,’” the woman began by recounting in a fragment of a documentary that went viral on social networks.
“I told them not to talk to me because I don’t know their language and I speak Hebrew poorly. I speak in Argentine, in Spanish… One of them tells me: ‘What is Argentina?’ And then I ask him: ‘Do you watch football?’ And he says, ‘Yes, I like it,’” he continued.
“’I’m from where Messi is from,’ I told him. And he answered me: ‘Messi? I like Messi. There he grabbed my arm, gave me the revolver (an AK-47 rifle), put his hand like this – with his fingers in a V – and they took a photo of us,” the woman explained about what happened.
Finally, the woman did not want to miss the opportunity in front of the cameras and sent a message to the current ’10’ of Inter Miami, in which she asked him to intercede to rescue her two grandchildren who are in the middle of the armed conflict between Israel and the Hamas terrorist cell.
“Now I hope that, if he knows that I mentioned it and because of him I was saved, I would ask him for my two grandchildren, who are there. He would ask you to please try to get them out because they are worth gold. One is called David and the other is Ariel Cunio,” he asked.
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