Jorge Lopez, an Argentine journalist and a friend of Lionel Messi, was killed in a fatal road accident in Sao Paulo on Wednesday.
Also known as “Topo”, Lopez was working for La Red Radio at the World Cup in Brazil and died after the taxi he was travelling in was hit by a stolen vehicle that was being pursued by the Military Police.
The 38-year old reporter was heading back to his hotel around 1:30am when the taxi was struck by a fleeing vehicle at Tiradentes and Barao de Mauá crossing in Sao Paulo.
The 38-year old reporter was heading back to his hotel around 1:30am when the taxi was struck by a fleeing vehicle at Tiradentes and Barao de Mauá crossing in Sao Paulo.
Lopez, who was sitting at the back seat, flew out of the vehicle as a consequence of the crash, while the driver suffered injuries on his shoulder.
The three occupants of the vehicle, two of them teenagers, were unharmed and arrested by the police and taken to the 1st DP Guarulhos.
He was responsible for conducting interviews with the star of Barcelona’s Messi for the daily “Ole”. According to the Argentine newspaper, Lopez met the top player during the period he lived in Barcelona. Lopez’s wife, who is also a journalist and is in Brazil to cover the World Cup, learned of the accident via a Twitter post of Argentine Diego Simeone, coach of Atletico Madrid.
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