Argentine justice opened an investigation Friday to determine whether there was negligence in the death of Diego Maradona, the football star that the entire South American continent mourns.
Members of his family seem convinced that there were irregularities in his treatment. Hours after his death, lawyer and friend of Maradona, Matias Morla, denounced Thursday the fact “that the ambulance took more than half an hour to reach the house” where the player was. Morla warned that he would go “to the end”. But, according to a judicial source, no complaint has yet been filed.
“The investigation was opened because it is about a deceased person in her home and no one has signed her death certificate. This does not mean that there are suspicions of irregularities ”, continued this source, on condition of anonymity.
The clinic recommended his hospitalization
The Argentine football icon, 1986 world champion, died Wednesday at the age of 60 from “secondary acute pulmonary edema and exacerbated chronic heart failure”. Operated for a hematoma on the head in early November, he had joined after six days of hospitalization a house in Tigre, 30 km north of Buenos Aires, close to his daughters Dalma and Giannina. It was they who would have signed the authorization to leave, while the clinic recommended hospitalization in a convalescent home.
After the operation, her recovery was going well, according to her personal physician, Dr. Luque. But Maradona’s health was fragile due to her cardiac history. He also suffered from alcohol withdrawal, which he mixed with the many medications he was taking.
At the tragic moment, he was surrounded by only a few relatives. “We need to determine whether they did the right thing or not. The nurse (on duty when Maradona died, Editor’s note) made a statement to the prosecutor on the day Diego died, and then modified it, to finally go in front of the television and say what she had told him had been imposed, so there is a certain contradiction in his statement, ”said a family member who requested anonymity.
“He was sleeping and breathing normally”
The prosecution is awaiting the results of toxicological tests. He demanded the medical file as well as the recordings of the cameras of the district where Maradona lived her last days.
The witnesses have already started to be heard. “We were able to establish that (a nurse responsible for watching over him) is the last person to have seen him alive at around 6.30 am local time (10.30 am, French time) on Wednesday, during the change of guard,” said the prosecution in a communicated. In her testimony, the nurse indicated that Maradona “was resting in his bed” and assured “that he was sleeping and breathing normally”. The nurse who took over, present at the time of death, assured to have “heard move” about an hour later. A modification of her testimony since she had previously indicated having seen him sleep at 11 o’clock, not having wanted to disturb him, to await the arrival at midday of the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and the psychologist Carlos Diaz.
They are the ones who sounded the alarm, failing to wake Maradona up. They called a neighborhood doctor, who couldn’t revive him. The first ambulance arrived at 12:27 p.m., the prosecution said.
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