Diego Maradona's family wants to end the wake at 4:00 p.m., but the Government asks him to extend it

11/26/2020 13:00

• Clarín.com

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Updated 11/26/2020 1:17 PM

When it was announced that Diego Armando Maradona's public wake was going to last barely 10 hours and that the doors of the Casa Rosada were going to close at 4 p.m. this Thursday, almost no one believed that this was going to happen in reality.

It is that the number of people that gathered around the Government House, since the very night of Wednesday, has been growing with the passing of the hours and there are already thousands and thousands who want to say goodbye to Ten.

At this time, the dispute between Maradona's family and the Government for the end of the farewell

Is that Claudia Villafañe and Dalma and Gianinna Maradona remain firm in the idea of

, but in the Executive they fear that problems will be generated in the surroundings and they want to extend it. 

The differences, in reality, began the moment it was agreed that La Rosada was going to be the place for fans to fire the star.

The family established 4 pm as the end of the wake, to be able to bury Diego this Thursday.

But after 12 noon this Thursday, the line of people still waiting to enter continued to grow and there are already more than 20 blocks in line.

Everyone, with the mission of saying goodbye to the idol, the myth, the legend ...

The drawer where the remains of Diego Maradona rest.

The doors of the Casa Rosada were opened punctually at 6 in the morning this Thursday.

The wake began with some shoving by a group that tried to knock down the containment fences and confronted the Police, although it did not progress.

After the intimate farewell to his family and a close group, among which were footballers, former players such as Mascherano and Goycochea, the 1986 world champions and even the Boca brava bar and prosecuted by Justice, Rafael Di Zeo, Those who want to fire Maradona began to enter the Government House.

At 10.50 am Alberto Fernández arrived accompanied by the First Lady, Fabiola Yañez.

Before entering the burning chapel, he approached the bars to take some photos with the people who were waiting to enter.

The Head of State embraced Claudia Villafañe, the star's ex-wife, and his daughters Dalma and Giannina, and then left an Argentinos Juniors T-shirt with the number 10 on the back and a white Abuelas de Plaza handkerchief on the coffin. of May. 

Once the wake is over, the body will be transferred to the Bella Vista cemetery, where his parents, Don Diego and Doña Tota, are buried.

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