Seven medical professionals are accused of offering ‘reckless’ and ‘poor’ therapy to Maradona, who died in November 2020.
4 years after the dying of Argentinian soccer legend Diego Maradona, seven healthcare professionals will go on trial accused of negligence throughout his ultimate days.
Greater than 100 witnesses, together with members of Maradona’s household and medical doctors who tended to him over time, will take the stand over the course of the four-month trial, which begins on Tuesday within the Buenos Aires suburb of San Isidro.
The seven defendants danger between eight and 25 years in jail if convicted.
Diego Armando Maradona died on November 25, 2020 on the age of 60 whereas recovering from mind surgical procedure for a blood clot, after many years of battling cocaine and alcohol addictions.
He was discovered lifeless in mattress at a rented home in an unique Buenos Aires neighbourhood the place he was introduced after being discharged from hospital two weeks after surgical procedure.
He was discovered to have died of a coronary heart assault.
The night time nurse stated he had seen some “warning indicators” however had “acquired orders to not wake him up”.
Maradona’s dying, which got here in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, plunged Argentina into deep mourning.
Tens of hundreds of individuals queued to bid farewell to him as his physique lay in state within the presidential palace.
Who’re the principle accused?
Neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, psychologist Carlos Diaz, medical coordinator Nancy Forlini, nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni, physician Pedro Pablo Di Spagna and nurse Ricardo Almiro will all stand trial subsequent week.
One other nurse, Gisela Dahiana Madrid, requested to be tried by jury individually.
Her trial is ready for July.
Prosecutors have accused the medical professionals of offering “reckless” and “poor” dwelling therapy to Maradona, alleging he was deserted to his destiny for a “extended, agonising interval” earlier than his dying.
A panel of 20 medical consultants convened by Argentina’s public prosecutor concluded in 2021 that Maradona “would have had a greater likelihood of survival” with satisfactory therapy in an acceptable medical facility.
The investigating Justice of the Peace within the case stated every of the accused performed a job within the occasions.
The accused all deny any accountability for the star’s dying.
Vadim Mischanchuk, lawyer for the psychiatrist Cosachov, stated he was very optimistic of an acquittal given his shopper was accountable for Maradona’s psychological quite than bodily well being.
What are the fees?
Maradona’s household declare that leaked audio and textual content messages present the star’s well being was in imminent hazard, Mario Baudry, a lawyer for Maradona’s son Dieguito, stated.
He stated the messages confirmed the medical group’s technique was to strive to make sure that Maradona’s daughters didn’t intervene “as a result of in the event that they did, they [the medical staff] would lose their cash”.
Maradona is immortalised in numerous murals, statues and exhibitions throughout Argentina, in addition to within the tattoos sported by his legions of followers.
He may also quickly have a mausoleum on a 1,000-square-metre (11-square-foot) website within the coronary heart of Buenos Aires.
“We wish our father to be near the love of the individuals,” his daughter Dalma Maradona stated in a video presentation of the location, which is anticipated to obtain as much as one million guests a 12 months and shall be freed from cost for Argentines.
