The Argentine court confirmed this on Tuesday increase to oral trial for the eight health care workers charged with the star’s death Diego Maradona happened on November 25, 2020informed a source about the matter.

That is what the Court of Appeal ruled the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and the other six defendants are tried for “simple manslaughter with possible intent”in a process with no start date.

The defense had appealed to the Court of Appeals aiming to change the face of the case for a lighter charge, but the Chamber ratified the classification of the crime carrying penalties of 8 to 25 years in prison.

In his request that the case be brought to an oral trial, the judge in the case, Orlando Díaz, had taken over the prosecutor’s report describing the work of the medical team that treated Maradona as “reckless” and “defective.”

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In his ruling, the judge raised questions “the conduct allegedly exhibited by any of the defendants (defendants) in violation of the mandate to act that good medical practice had been placed in their minds.”

The eight defendants will arrive free at the oral trial, in a trial speculated to begin as late as 2024.

In addition to Luque and Cosachov, psychologist Carlos Ángel Díaz, coordinating physician Nancy Forlini, nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni, clinical physician Pedro Pablo Di Spagna and nurses Ricardo Omar Almirón and Dahiana Gisela Madrid are also accused.

Maradona, considered one of the best football players in history and an emblem of the Albiceleste team, died in his sickbed on November 25, 2020 at the age of 60recovering from surgery for a head contusion sustained in an accident at home.

The death occurred when the former captain of the selected champion in Mexico 1986 was hospitalized at home, in a residence in a private neighborhood of Tigre, 40 km north of Buenos Aires.