No date has been set for the trial of the eight over Maradona’s death in 2020, which prosecutors say was due to “omissions” by his caregivers who abandoned him “to his fate” during home hospitalization.
Eight medical personnel will stand trial for alleged criminal negligence in the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, according to a court ruling made public Wednesday. No date has been set for the trial of the eight over Maradona’s death in 2020, which prosecutors say was due to “omissions” by his caregivers who abandoned him “to his fate” during home hospitalization. Maradona died aged 60 in 2020 while recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot, and after decades of battles with cocaine and alcohol addictions.
They claim mismanagement by the team had placed the football legend in a “situation of helplessness.”
The accused risk sentences ranging from eight to 25 years in prison.
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According to the prosecutors, the defendants “were the protagonists of
an unprecedented, totally deficient and reckless hospitalization at
home”, allegedly responsible for a “series of improvisations, management failures and shortcomings.”
Maradona is widely considered one of the greatest footballers in history.
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