Seven members of his doctor’s team were charged with manslaughter with indirect intent, and in the event of a conviction, they face a sentence of eight to 25 years in prison. All the accused deny their guilt.
The first trial, scheduled for May last year, was canceled after one of the three judges allegedly approved unauthorized filming in the courtroom for documentary purposes.
It is expected that the new proceedings before the new judicial panel will last until July, and about a hundred people should testify, including Maradona’s daughters.
The famous soccer player died at his home in Tigre, in the province of Buenos Aires, where he was recovering from an operation for a blood clot on the brain. The autopsy determined that heart failure caused acute pulmonary edema, that is, the accumulation of fluid in the lungs.
Seven people will be on the dock, including Maradona’s chief doctor Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov. His former nurse, Dahiana Gisela Madrid, will be tried in a separate case.
Prosecutors claim that the defendants were aware of the seriousness of Maradona’s health condition, but knowingly did not take the necessary measures to save him. The council of medical experts, hired by the prosecution, assessed the treatment the football player received at home as “deficient and thoughtless”.
The report states that Maradona “would have had a better chance of survival” if he had been treated in an appropriate medical facility.
Maradona’s death on November 25, 2020, shocked the world, and Argentina’s president at the time, Alberto Fernandez, declared three days of national mourning.
“Thank you for existing, Diego. We will miss you for the rest of our lives,” Fernandez said at the time.
(Vijesti.ba)
