Argentina president releases statement after Lionel Messi's ₦20 billion house was destroyed

Argentina's president Javier Milei has taken to support Lionel Messi after his vacation home in Ibiza was vandalised by radical climate change activists. 

As Pulse Sports reported, Messi's €11 million home in Ibiza, Spain, was broken into by climate change protesters.

The belligerents broke into the Inter Miami’s star home and vandalised the property. They spray painted the walls with red and black hues, and employing a banner, they sent out an outrageous message, “Help the planet. Eat the rich. Abolish the police.”

According to ESPN, the perpetrators deemed their action “non-violent civil disobedience,” and alleged that Messi built the house illegally. The 37-year-old is domiciled in Miami with his family, while his MLS career lasts, and as such, was not in the home at the time. 

Milei, who was voted in as Argentina's president in December last year, and has been praised for his progressive and capitalist policies, accused the climate change activists of communism. 

He condemned the action and then called on the Spanish government to step up its efforts to protect Argentines in Spain. 

"In Spain, communists who want to "murder the rich and abolish the police to end climate change" vandalised a home of Lionel Messi and his family,” Milei said on X.

"I stand in solidarity with the Messi family for this cowardly and delusional event and I ask Pedro Sanchez's government to guarantee the safety of the Argentine citizens who live in the Kingdom of Spain.

"Communism is an ideology fostered by envy, hatred and resentment towards the successful. It has no place in the free and civilised world."

Meanwhile, Milei reportedly fired Argentina’s deputy sports minister, after the official enjoined Messi to apologise for the racially charged celebratory singing that got the likes of Enzo Fernandes in trouble.