The soccer legend died of a coronary heart assault final November on the age of 60 (File)
Buenos Aires, Argentina:
A nurse who was among the many final individuals to see Diego Maradona alive was questioned on Monday by Argentine prosecutors over accusations of neglect within the soccer icon’s last days.
Ricardo Almiron, 37, was Maradona’s nighttime carer and is suspected of mendacity when he claimed the World Cup profitable captain was sleeping and respiration usually hours earlier than he died. An post-mortem revealed he was dying at the moment.
Almiron arrived simply after noon (1500 GMT) along with his lawyer on the San Isidro public prosecutor’s workplace on the outskirts of the capital Buenos Aires.
He’s one in all seven individuals underneath investigation for manslaughter after a board of consultants wanting into Maradona’s demise discovered he had obtained insufficient care and was deserted to his destiny for a “prolonged, agonizing period”.
The soccer legend died of a coronary heart assault final November on the age of 60, simply weeks after present process mind surgical procedure for a blood clot.
An investigation was opened following a criticism filed by two of Maradona’s 5 kids towards neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, whom they blame for his or her father’s deteriorating situation after the operation.
A panel of 20 medical consultants convened by Argentina’s public prosecutor stated final month that Maradona’s remedy was rife with “deficiencies and irregularities” and the medical workforce had left his survival “to fate”.
The panel concluded he “would have had a better chance of survival” with enough remedy in an acceptable medical facility.
Instead, he died in his mattress in a rented home in an unique Buenos Aires neighborhood, the place he was receiving residence care.
“I did my best”
The others underneath investigation are Maradona’s psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, 35, psychologist Carlos Diaz, 29, nurse Dahiana Madrid, 36, nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni, 40, and medical coordinator Nancy Forlini, 52,
Over the subsequent two weeks, they’ll seem one after the other earlier than prosecutors, accompanied by protection attorneys, to answer to the allegations towards them.
The hearings, postponed from final month because of a spike in coronavirus instances in Argentina, will finish with Luque, 39, on June 28.
A decide will then resolve whether or not the matter ought to go to trial in a course of anticipated to final months, even years.
All seven accused are prohibited from leaving the nation, and threat between eight and 25 years in jail if convicted.
Luque has repeatedly defended his actions, saying “I did my best. I offered Diego everything I could: some things he accepted, others not.”
The physician is searching for a dismissal of the case, and says Maradona had been depressed in his last days.
“I know that the (coronavirus) quarantine hit him very hard,” Luque has stated.
Maradona had battled cocaine and alcohol addictions throughout his life.
The former Boca Juniors, Barcelona and Napoli star was affected by liver, kidney and cardiovascular problems when he died.
Maradona is an idol to thousands and thousands of Argentines after he impressed the South American nation to solely their second World Cup triumph in 1986.
His demise shocked followers around the globe, and tens of hundreds queued to file previous his coffin, draped within the Argentine flag, on the presidential palace in Buenos Aires amid three days of nationwide mourning.
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