Argentine justice has confirmed the opening of a trial with the indictment of the defendants in the case of the death of Diego Maradona, which took place in Buenos Aires on November 25, 2020 following an "acute pulmonary edema caused by chronic heart failure ".
The eight defendants are accused of simple manslaughter, which carries a sentence of between 8 and 25 years in prison. It has not yet been announced when the trial will take place. The indictment is the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and six other health workers.
Their indictment had already been requested last year and was then appealed. The defendants are part of the group that accompanied Maradona in recent months, during his home hospitalization.
According to the prosecutors, the staff responsible for looking after Maradona had been "protagonists of a totally inadequate and inconsiderate home hospitalization", and had committed a "series of improvisations, mismanagement and defaults".
An expert report, as part of the investigation, had concluded that the former player had been "abandoned to his fate" by his medical team, reaching his death after a slow agony. Maradona - we read - had had "a nursing care full of deficiencies and irregularities", and had "began to die at least 12 hours before 12:30 on November 25, showing unequivocal signs of a prolonged period of agony".
(Unioneonline)