The seven accused of the death of Diego Armando Maradona appear before the Justice

The seven defendants for the death of Diego Armando Maradona appeared this Monday before the courts of the Buenos Aires town of San Isidro, in the case investigating the death of the soccer star on November 25.

They are the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, the psychologist Carlos Díaz, the doctor who coordinated home care Nancy Forlini, the coordinator of the nurses Mariano Perroni and the nurses Ricardo Omar Almirón and Dahiana Gisela Madrid.

This formal procedure, ordered by the Prosecutor’s Office in charge of the investigation, aims to obtain the fingerprints of those involved, as well as to collect the possible existence of a criminal record.

After his departure from the courts, the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque only responded ironically to a journalist who accused his lawyer of allegedly attacking a local television cameraman.

“I am not a lawyer, if not, I would defend him. You are pushing me,” said Luque, who declined to make further statements to reporters gathered in the area.

Maradona died at the age of 60 and the autopsy on the body of the former captain and former Argentine national team determined that he died as a result of “acute lung edema secondary to exacerbated chronic heart failure.”

He also discovered a “dilated cardiomyopathy” in his heart.

The 1986 world champion in Mexico suffered from alcohol addiction problems, had been admitted to a clinic in La Plata on November 2, 2020 for anemia and dehydration and a day later he was transferred to a sanatorium in the Buenos Aires town of Olivos, where he was operated on for a subdural hematoma by a team led by Luque.

On November 11, he was discharged from hospital and moved to a house in a private neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where he died on November 25. (I)