Gianinna Maradona, daughter of Diego Maradona: “My father was violently robbed of the Ballon d'Or”

Gianinna Maradona, daughter of the late Diego Armando Maradona, expressed this Friday her great sadness at the decision of the French Justice, which on Thursday allowed the auction of the 1986 Ballon d’Or of her father, Diego Armando Maradona, which was stolen from him in 1989.

“We found out about the resolution and we are very hurt by the memory of our father. “We have appealed the resolution and we are very confident that the decision will be reversed, because it has been proven that my father was robbed of the Ballon d’Or and that the theft was public knowledge,” Gianinna, who was born in 1989, told EFE. union between Maradona and Claudia Villafañe.

Maradona’s heirs, including Gianinna and her sister Dalma, had requested the French Justice to stop the auction of the Ballon d’Or scheduled for June 6 at the Aguttes house, in Neuilly sur Seine, near Paris.

The trophy, whose whereabouts were unknown for decades, was acquired for just 1.20 euros by a small collector at a minor auction in Paris in 2016.

“As a matter of justice, and for the memory of our father, it is up to us heirs to claim what belongs to us. It was violently stolen without him being able to enjoy it,” added Gianinna, who gave Maradona a grandson as a result of the relationship she had with ‘Kun’ Agüero.

If the award is finally auctioned, it could exceed 10 million euros (about $10.86 million dollars) and become the most expensive sports object in history.

The plaintiffs, represented in France by lawyer Gilles Moreu, claim that the trophy was stolen in 1989 during a robbery at the Banco della Provincia in Naples, orchestrated by the Italian mafia, and maintain that the current owner, a French-Algerian collector named Abdelhamid B., did not act in good faith when acquiring it.

However, the French Justice ruled in favor of Abdelhamid B. and the Aguttes house, who argued that the buyer did not know that he was acquiring a Ballon d’Or and that the three-year period had already passed without anyone from the Maradona family making a claim. the object,+

At the same time, the Central Traffic Office of Cultural Assets of France is investigating whether there was a crime of “concealment of a stolen object” by the collector.

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