More than three years after the physical departure of the Argentine star Diego Armando Maradona, the Prosecutor’s Office of that country has requested to investigate the house in which the death of the former soccer player was recorded, this despite the fact that a date for the start has not yet been announced. of the trial for the case that seeks to clarify the cause of his death.
This Wednesday, a hearing on the case of Maradona’s death was held in the Oral Criminal Court number 3, located in Buenos Aires, in which the lawyers of the eight accused of the alleged homicide were present. It had to define the start date of the trial, as well as determine the evidence that will be used.
“Now the Court has five days to resolve and to set the date,” said Mario Baudry, lawyer and partner of Verónica Ojeda, former partner of ’10’ and mother of one of his children.
For its part, the Prosecutor’s Office requested a visual inspection of the house where Maradona died on November 25, 2020, located in a ‘country’ in the town of Tigre, province of Buenos Aires, whose request was supported by both the defenses and for the demand.
Likewise, the presence of 200 witnesses was requested, although the complaint wanted to raise it. Finally, Vadim Mischanchuk, lawyer for Maradona’s psychiatrist – and one of the accused – Agustina Cosachov, made it clear that the parties agreed to lower the figure.
“There was agreement between all parties that this number of witnesses can be lowered, and that only the witnesses that have to do with the investigation and the trial linked to the death of the patient remain and other issues are left aside. Focus on the evidence that has to do with this trial, which is to know if there is any criminal responsibility in Maradona’s death,” he argued.
Now the court must define which of the evidence presented, among which there are more than 100,000 audios, is accepted within the case.
The eight accused for the death of ‘El Pelusa’, all linked to the health care that the deceased should have received, are the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque; the aforementioned psychiatrist Cosachov; the psychologist Carlos Díaz; the doctor who coordinated the former soccer player’s home care, Nancy Forlini; the nurses’ coordinator, Mariano Perroni; the nurse Ricardo Omar Almirón; the nurse Dahiana Gisela Madrid and the clinical doctor Pedro Di Spagna.
The lawyer defending Madrid, Rodolfo Barqué, declared that they want the trial to be oral and public with a popular jury and that his client is not benefiting from this notorious case.
“We want the trial for Maradona’s death to be an oral and public trial. Let’s remember that my client has not given a single note or interview because she says that a patient died,” said Barqué.
For his part, lawyer Fernando Burlando, who represents Dalma and Giannina, the daughters that the former Naples player had with Claudia Villafañe, defended that this case is much bigger than it seems and involves more people than those investigated.
“Here it seems that there are many interests, of all kinds. It is difficult for me to understand that all these people who participated in the homicide were mobilized by themselves to kill Diego. They were the tool and there was an economic issue,” he pointed out.
‘Pelusa’ died on November 25, 2020, 25 days after turning 60, and 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.” ”.
With information from EFE.
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