Diego Maradonain the last months of his life, he was “as kidnapped” on the part of his surroundings, his ex -partner and mother of one of his children accused on Tuesday, Verónica Ojedain the trial against the medical team of the deceased star in 2020. “He knew that (his surroundings) had him captive. He was afraid of everything. When he left, he told me: ‘Take me,” he said before a court in San Isidro (north of Buenos Aires), on the ninth day of the audience about the circumstances of the death of the Argentine soccer idol.
Ojeda, 46, was a couple from Maradona from 2005 to 2014, “with some interruptions”, and then again in 2017. He had a son with him, Dieguito Fernando, 12 years old. Although he had little contact with him after 2019, he continued to carry it regularly. Among that entourage, which is not among the accused, Ojeda especially highlighted two former assistants of Diego Maradona, Maximiliano Pomargo and Vanessa Morla (sister of the former player’s lawyer), as well as a former bodyguard of Diego, Julio Coria, arrested in the middle of the trial two weeks ago by Perjurio.
Verónica Ojeda, before declaring in court
In his testimony, many times interrupted by sobs, he also had, like several other witnesses, very hard words for the medical environment of the particular residence of Tigre (northern Buenos Aires) where Maradona convenient after a neurosurgery by a bruise in the head. And where he died on November 25, 2020 at 60 for a complicated cardiorespiratory crisis with a pulmonary edema.
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“Where Diego was there was smell of pis and peanut,” he says about the last time he saw him alive, two days before his death. That day I told him to showers, that he shaved, because he was not good to be like this. Diego smelled bad, it was not fine. “Seven professionals – Médica, a psychiatrist, a psychologist and nurses – have been judged for a month for their possible responsibility in Maradona’s death.
