Eight health professionals will be tried in Argentina for premeditated murder, at the closing of the “curtain” of the investigation into the death of the world football legend, Diego Maradona, in November 2020, at the age of 60 from a heart attack.
< A judge in San Isidro (Argentina) has accepted a lawsuit against the health professionals in question, including a neurosurgeon and family doctor, a clinician, a psychiatrist, a psychologist and a director of nursing.
The prosecution had requested the trial in April, pointing out shortcomings and negligence in the care of the Argentine star.
Maradona died of a heart attack on November 25, 2020, alone, in a medical bed , in a house in northern Buenos Aires, while recovering from very delicate neurosurgery on the head. He suffered from kidney and liver problems, heart failure, neurological deterioration and addiction to alcohol and psychotropic drugs.
The eight suspects will be tried for “simple homicide with dolus eventualis”, a crime characterized when a person commits negligence knowing that it can cause the death of someone.
They face varying sentences from 8 to 25 years in prison, but will have to appear free at trial, as the San Isidro prosecutor never requested their pre-trial detention.
According to prosecutors, the staff who was responsible for Maradona was “the protagonist of an unprecedented, completely incomplete and reckless home treatment” and had committed a “series of improvisations, mismanagement of the whole situation”.
Report expert, in the context of the investigation, had concluded that the former player had been “left to his fate” by his medical team, leading him to a slow death.
Still the date has not been announced for the conduct of the trial.
