11/27/2020 21:14
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 11/27/2020 9:14 PM
After the scandal over the photos that three employees of a funeral home were taken next to the body of Diego Armando Maradona, Justice raided this Friday night the house of one of the accused and two funeral homes, according to judicial sources confirmed to
Clarín
.
One of the operations is in Gavilán at 1700, where the employee with glasses lives who posed smiling and raising a thumb next to Maradona's drawer.
In that picture he was with his father, Claudio Fernández (48), who this morning spoke and apologized to the family of the greatest legend in the history of world football.
The other two raids are at the
Pinier burial house
, at Avenida San Martín 2902, and at the funeral room hired by that company at Tres Arroyos 1510.
The procedures are carried out by the Judicial Investigation Corps (CIJ) by order of the prosecutor Néstor Maragliano, in charge of the Criminal, Misconduct and Misdemeanor Prosecutor's Office No. 25 of the City.
Claudio Fernández (right) with his son Ismael, next to Diego's body.
The photograph quickly went viral and, at the same speed, it was generating a
generalized repudiation
in all areas: the image of three employees of the funeral home that provided the service after the death of Diego Armando Maradona posing next to the open coffin.
Worse still: one of them, with his thumb raised and another, the youngest, outlining a small smile.
Sorry to the family
In the midst of the scandal, and after the Pinier funeral home reported that they had been fired,
Claudio Fernández (48)
, the oldest of the three workers,
spoke
, who prepared a mild defense and apologized to the family.
"We were accommodating before taking him, and my son, like every kid, raised his thumb and they took the picture. I ask everyone for respect and forgiveness. Look, I served Maradona's father, his brother-in-law ... I was with Maradona in life close by "I did not do it in life being my idol. I am not going to do it when I died. It is not my intention. I know that many people have been offended, they have taken it badly, I know that it bothered," Fernández said in statements to
Radio 10.
The funeral home employee argued that the photo was not taken from his phone and that, despite what is seen in the image,
neither he nor his son intentionally posed
.
"At that moment I was thinking, with the nerves that Maradona looks good. If you see the photo, I just raised my head because they told me: 'Skinny'. It was something instantaneous. I am one of the people who do not think about taking photos with coffins and deceased, out of respect.
I never thought they were going to raise it or pass it to a group,
"he added.
Diego Molina, the other employee who posed next to the corpse.
Fernández
, who worked with Pinier for more than seven years driving the hearse and preparing the corpses before the wakes, separated the company from the scandal: "They are not to blame either. I take responsibility from them. Pinier has already worked with the Maradona family and Villafañe. We have never had any problems, but hey. "
As he said, since the photo went viral, he
did not stop receiving telephone threats
from a group of Argentinos Juniors fans.
"They know me because I am from the neighborhood. They tell me that they are going to kill us, that they are going to break our truck, that my children ...", he said.
Claudio Fernández, his 18-year-old son Ismael and
Diego Molina
are the three employees who posed next to Diego Maradona's coffin before being transferred to the Casa Rosada for his wake.
César Picón, owner with his brothers Diego and Matías of the wake house located in the Paternal neighborhood, clarified that the two men and the young man "do not belong to the company", but rather "were hired to collaborate with the burial."
Matías Morla, friend and lawyer of the idol, had promised on Thursday to take care "personally of finding the scoundrel who took that photograph" and
make "pay all those responsible for such an act of cowardice
.
"
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