They declared Messi’s father dead live on air and ended up fired and crying: the scandal enraging Argentina 🔥

Florencia Peña went on air on LuzuTV and announced that Jorge Messi had died, but the information was completely false. 😡

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ATENCIÓN Florencia Peña aseguró al aire en el canal de streaming Luzu TV que el papá de Lionel Messi había muerto. Más tarde, la conductora debió salir a pedir disculpas por dar la información sin chequearla. “No quiero darles una mala noticia pero acaba de morir el papá de Messi”, dijo este jueves al aire de El show del verano. El anuncio dejó en shock a todos en el estudio, pero minutos después debieron salir a aclarar que era un rumor. Ya los volaron a todos‼️

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What came next was an earthquake: the family of the captain of the Argentine national team itself denied the news within minutes, and the channel had no choice but to act. Two producers from the program El Show del Verano — the ones responsible for feeding the host the false information through her earpiece without verifying it — were fired immediately. Peña, for her part, decided to “step aside”, although she made it clear that she only repeated what production told her. Three departures in a single day. The channel’s founder, Nicolás Occhiato, came out to say that what happened was “an inadmissible error” and that it did not represent him at all. 🔥

But the criticism did not stop there: on social media, thousands of Argentines also pointed at Occhiato for not having staff qualified to handle sensitive information. And as a silent but eloquent signal, Antonella Roccuzzo unfollowed LuzuTV, Occhiato, and Peña on her social media. Argentina is not forgiving them for this. 😒