Buenos Aires.- A shocking one Unpublished photograph of Diego Armando Maradona, bedridden and taken in the context of his death, was shown this Tuesday by one of the prosecutors during the first hearing of the trial into the death of the Argentine star.
In the image, Maradona was seen before he died or recently deceased, as the prosecutor did not clarify, where he appears very swollen and intubated. The photograph was apparently taken on November 25, 2020, the day he died.
“This is how Maradona died,” said Patricio Ferrari, deputy attorney general of the court in San Isidro, a town on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, as he showed the photograph.
He did so at the end of his argument, when he approached judges Verónica Di Tommaso, Maximiliano Savarino and Julieta Makintach, of the Criminal Court No. 3 of San Isidro, with the photo in his hand.
The moment shocked the audience in the room, especially his three daughters. One of them, Giannina, covered her face to avoid seeing her father in that state.
"The truth is a right. Today, Diego Armando Maradona, his children, his family, and the Argentine people deserve justice," Ferrari said, referring to the situation in which the famous soccer player died, which was in a home under the care of private doctors and not in a clinic or hospital.
"They voluntarily assumed that role in the home hospitalization failing to fulfill all the duties under his charge,” he said about the people who attended to him.
Ferrari thus accused doctors and other professionals of abandoning the idol in his final days by not taking adequate measures to assist him.
On the trial regarding Maradona's death
The trial for Maradona's death began this Tuesday at around 10:45 a.m. (1:45 p.m. GMT) with seven defendants and the Argentine star's daughters: Dalma, Giannina, and Jana in attendance.
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The accused of simple homicide with eventual intent They are the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, the psychoanalyst Carlos Díaz, the doctor and coordinator of the company Swiss Medical, Nancy Forlini; physician Pedro Di Spagna; nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni; and nurse Ricardo Almirón.
Nurse Dahiana Madrid, who requested a jury trial and will be tried in a separate proceeding, is also charged. Therefore, she is not present at this hearing.
Diego Armando Maradona died at the age of 60 from respiratory failure and cardiac arrest "in a situation of helplessness" and "left to his own devices," according to prosecutors Patricio Ferrari, Cosme Iribarren, and Laura Capra, who are in charge of the investigation.
