The prosecutors investigating the death in 2020 in Argentina of the soccer legend Diego Maradona They have asked that the medical staff who treated him be tried for manslaughter.
The request was made on Wednesday by prosecutors who said that the “omissions” and mishandling of eight medical professionals in charge of Maradona placed him in a “situation of helplessness” by abandoning him “to his fate” during a “scandalous” hospitalization. home, according to the judicial file cited by the official Télam news agency.
Maradona died at the age of 60 of a cardiorespiratory crisis on November 25, 2020, on his medical stretcher in a residence in the north of the Argentine capital, while recovering from neurosurgery.
The neurosurgeon and family doctor Leopoldo Luque and the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov are being investigated for his death, as the main people responsible for the health of the former soccer player.
Psychologist Carlos Díaz, medical coordinator Nancy Forlini and nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni, nurses Ricardo Almirón and Dahiana Madrid, and clinician Pedro Pablo Di Spagna are also charged.
The Prosecutor’s Office accuses them of “simple homicide with eventual intent”, a crime characterized when a person commits negligence knowing that it can cause the death of someone. They face sentences ranging from 8 to 25 years in prison.
The defense must present its arguments and can request that the case be dismissed
According to prosecutors, the defendants “were the protagonists of an unprecedented home hospitalization, totally deficient and reckless,” and also allegedly committed a “series of improvisations, mismanagement and shortcomings.”
After this accusation, the defendant’s defense must present their arguments and may request that the case be dismissed. The case could then be taken to the courts of San Isidro, in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires.
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