At the trial into the death of Diego Maradona, the prosecution denounces "a chaotic organization" having delivered him "to his fate"

At the trial into the death of Diego Maradona, the prosecution affirmed, Thursday, October 8, that six months of hearing demonstrated "a chaotic organization" of the medical team around the player then in convalescence, placing him "in a situation of abandonment, leaving him to his fate" until his death in 2020. The heart of the prosecution "remained intact", launched the main prosecutor Patricio Ferrari, at the start of indictments expected to last several hours.

He denounced, around Maradona in November 2020, a “total disorganization”, an “almost anarchic structure”, on the part of a “group of amateurs” who “forgot at all times that they were dealing with a vulnerable and complex patient”. And have “increased the risk beyond what is permitted, some of them with indifference”. Seven health professionals (doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, nurses) have been on trial since April for potential fatal negligence during Maradona's home hospitalization in November 2020 in Tigre (north of Buenos Aires). They face up to 25 years in prison.

The trial, which is being held in a court in San Isidro, entered its home stretch on Thursday with the start of requisitions and pleadings, in the presence of Diego Maradona's daughters in particular. These latest hearings are expected to last two weeks, with the verdict being deliberated at a later date. The former Argentinian player died at the age of 60 from a cardiorespiratory crisis coupled with pulmonary edema, found dead on November 25 late in the morning on his bed in a residence in Tigre rented for his convalescence, after benign neurosurgery.

The trial, over 45 hearings to date, has revolved mainly around home hospitalization, both the choice of this option, instead of a care center, and the poor medical equipment of the house rented for the occasion. He also questioned at length the follow-up, the care given to Maradona in his last days, in particular the clinical warning signals, which according to many experts at the trial, were ignored by the medical and paramedical team now on trial.