Anselmi player victim of violent assault: “It was minutes of terror”

Matias Dituro lived moments of great panic last Thursday night. Elche's goalkeeper and team captain, a Spanish team who is guided by FC Porto Martín Anselmi's former coach, was the victim of a violent assault at his home.

The story was told by the Argentinean, 39 years old, through a publication on social networks. Dituro returned home at 8:49 p.m. (local time), with his two children, aged six and eight, when he received a call from his wife to warn him that three hooded individuals had just broken into the house. Four minutes apart prevented the Argentinian goalie from running into the group of robbers.

Faced with the tension of the moment, the children began to cry and asked the father not to leave the car and to escape from there. The robbers eventually took several family belongings and left a trail of destruction.

“I want to share with everyone what we lived last night, not only to vent, but also to alert our neighbors. Yesterday [Thursday], around 8:45 p.m., three hooded and tooled people violently broke into our house to steal, while a fourth person remained outside to watch and warn if anyone came,” Matías Dituro began to tell us in a statement he released in the Instagram social network story section.

“ At 8:49 p.m., I came home with my two children, six and eight years old, not knowing the robbers were still inside. Right then, I got a call from my wife telling me what was going on. Thanks to that warning and the quick intervention of a neighbor, who heard the noises and checked in his chambers that they were entering our house, we never got in. My kids started crying, begging me not to get out of the car and to get out of there. It was a few minutes of real terror that we will never forget”, the Argentinean continued.

The Argentinian statement© Instagram/Dituro Materials  

Finally, Diturus explains that the case is already handed over to the authorities and that despite the shock, the family is well.

“ The thieves fled shortly after, leaving our house completely destroyed and taking part of our belongings. What is material can be recovered; the tranquility and sense of security in our home will not be so easy to recover. I want to thank our neighbor from the bottom of my heart for his quick reaction and all the people who are showing us his support. Thanks to that call, today we can all say we're okay. I trust the authorities will be able to identify those responsible and that they will answer for the damage they have done. Thank you all for your support. Our family is fine, and that is undoubtedly the most imposing ", ends the note.