An employee of the funeral director in charge of preparing Diego Maradona's body on Wednesday evening had his picture taken with the body of the Argentine idol.
Several Argentine media relayed the information.
The snapshot, which was shared on social media and sparked widespread outrage in Argentina, shows the man in question, a certain Diego Molina, posing next to the open coffin with his thumb raised above the famous man's body. number 10.
He aquí las fotos of Maradona en el féretro.
Diego molina y otros más 🤣
El cuerpo de Maradona ya muerto.
pic.twitter.com/SE9lAom4Ub
- HarmoStream (@Harmostreamvote) November 26, 2020
Argentine site TyC Sports explains that the same employee was caught making an equivocal gesture to television cameras during the funeral convoy bringing the coffin to the presidential palace for the wake.
The latter, foreign to the ambient atmosphere of meditation, would have liked to take advantage of the circumstance to arrogate to himself a minute of fame.
According to TN media, Diego Molina, whose contact details circulated on the networks, has already been fired by his company, and has apologized to the Maradona family.
However, another photo, in which two men appear near the remains, is already circulating on social networks.
VIDEO. Funeral of Maradona: a huge crowd accompanies the national idol
The Argentine football icon was buried at around midnight French time on Thursday in a private family ceremony in a cemetery in Buenos Aires.
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At the end of a day when thousands of fans paid him their last respects, the hearse carrying the coffin covered with the Argentinian flag had left the presidential palace at the end of the day, greeted by thousands of people along the roads before that the coffin is not buried in a family vault.