BUENOS AIRES.- One of the daughters of Diego Maradona said this Tuesday at the trial in Argentina for the death of the soccer star in 2020 that “the manipulation” of his medical team “was absolute and horrible.”
Gianinna Maradona She maintained at a hearing in San Isidro, north of Buenos Aires, that she and her siblings were induced to accept a home confinement presented as “serious” and well-equipped, but that it later turned out to be inadequate for her father, who was convalescing from brain surgery when he died.
“The manipulation was absolute and horrible,” he said. “I trusted these three beings that the only thing they did was manipulate us and leave my son without a grandfather,” he added, referring to the neurosurgeon. Leopoldo Luquethe psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and the psychologist Carlos Diaz.
“Beyond what they talked to us about, they had another strategy in parallel,” said Gianinna, 36, after WhatsApp audios that members of Maradona’s medical team had exchanged about how to protect themselves if the former soccer player suffered a fatality were played.
“I never imagined that they were already thinking that they had to cover themselves, throw the ball at the patient, it makes me quite angry to hear it,” said the daughter of the world champion with Argentina in 1986 in a statement that took an hour and a half before the midday break.
At the beginning of the hearing, the prosecution played messages involving Luque, who asked to testify immediately afterwards in response to the evidence presented by the accusing party.
It is the third time that Luque has testified since the trial began last week and he will testify “as many times as necessary,” he noted. Julio Rivasone of his defense attorneys.
In addition to Luque, Cosachov and Díaz, four other defendants risk up to 25 years in prison for homicide with possible intent, a figure that implies that they were aware that their actions could cause death.
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It is the second time that justice has tried to clarify the circumstances of the soccer star’s death, after the first trial was annulled last year when it was discovered that one of the judges was participating in a clandestine documentary about the case.
With two weekly hearings, the process is expected to last at least until the second half of July. An eighth nurse will be tried in another trial.
