The oral trial for the death of former Argentine soccer player Diego Armando Maradonawho died on November 25, 2020 due to alleged medical negligence, will begin on June 4 in San Isidro, province of Buenos Aires, judicial sources reported this Monday.
The Oral Criminal Court (TOC) No. 3 of San Isidro reported that the hearings to try the eight defendants for the alleged crime of simple homicide with possible intent will begin that day, after the session held on March 6 with the representatives of the accused, the complaint and the Prosecutor’s Office.
In her, The Prosecutor’s Office had requested a visual inspection at the home where Maradona died, Located in a private urbanization in the town of Tigre.
This request was supported by both the defense and the plaintiff.
Who are the eight accused in the Diego Maradona case?
The eight accused for the death of the ‘Diez’, all linked to the health care that Maradona should have received, are:
Neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque
The psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov
The psychologist Carlos Díaz
Doctor Nancy Forlini
The coordinator of the nurses, Mariano Perroni
Nurse Ricardo Omar Almirón
Nurse Dahiana Gisela Madrid
The clinical doctor Pedro Di Spagna.
The case was elevated on April 18, 2023, when an appeals court confirmed that the eight people would be tried for the alleged crime of simple homicide with possible intent.thus rejecting the requests for annulment of the process and the change of legal classification of the judicial case.
In that ruling, the court stated that the evidence attached to the case allowed it to be considered “consolidated.” the tax accusation relating to the fact that the contribution that each of the eight accused “would have made in the case with respect to the health of the alleged victim, taking into account the role and functions that they would have evidenced” in Maradona’s home confinement, “would have “were decisive in the fatal outcome.”
The crime of simple homicide with possible intent provides for a penalty of between 8 and 25 years in prison in Argentina.
The autopsy on the body of the former captain and former Argentina coach determined that he died as a result of “acute pulmonary edema secondary to exacerbated chronic heart failure.”
“Dilated cardiomyopathy” was also discovered in his heart.
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