“This is how Maradona died,” the prosecutor of the trial, showed a shocking photo, with the former deceased superstar.
Diego Maradona, a few moments after died
After there were moments of tension before the start of the process opened after the death of Diego Armando Maradona, with the crowd that met the medical team before the Court of San Isidro, shouting “killers”, the introduction of prosecutor Patricio Ferrari produced a real shock.
“Look, this is how Maradona died,” said the prosecutor, showing a photo with the extremely swollen body of “El Diez”. “Anyone of the defendants claiming that he did not understand what was happened to Diego lies clearly. His condition was obvious“, Insistantly added the magistrate. And while the prosecutor continued to show the photo, holding it up, his daughters Dalma and Giannina burst into tears, being comforted by their sister, Jana.
The dramatic scene, which has gone viral throughout the world, was transmitted in the live flow of the process transmitted by the Supreme Court of Buenos Aires province on its official YouTube channel.
The trial accuses of homicide all the medical staff who treated on the Argentine champion in his last days of life. In total, there are eight people, including doctors and nurses, including the attending physician, neurosurgeon Leopolodo Luque. The arrival of the paramedics at the Court of San Isidro, on the outskirts of the Capital, was greeted by a lot that gathered spontaneously in front of the building shouting “Corini”.
To the tension was added the ex -wife of Maradona, Veronica Ojeda, who stood in front of one of the accused, the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, broke out and threw a series of offenses. A few hours before the trial, his daughter Dalma had asked for justice in a television interview in which she reiterated the hypothesis of a conspiracy of a power circle that wanted the death of her father. “We want these people to tell who hired, who paid their salaries“Said the young woman.
In the introductory word, the prosecutor stated that “At the end of a year of investigations, a solid and consequences were built, based on samples”. According to Ferrari, there is solid evidence that the defendants are responsible for causing Maradona’s death during his home detention, which lasted between November 11 and 25, 2020, in what is called the “House of Orrilor”. The magistrate then ended his speech stating that “the Argentine family and people deserve justice”.
Maradona died on November 25, 2020, at the age of 60, following a cardio-respiratory crisis that took place in his residence in Tigre, in the exclusive suburbs in the north of Buenos Aires, where Diego recovered from a surgery for one hematoma to the head.