The death of Diego Maradona: Gianinna and Jana are already in the prosecution to expand their statements

02/26/2021 1:41 PM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 02/26/2021 1:48 PM

Gianinna and Jana Maradona, the daughter of the late Diego Armando Maradona (60), testified since noon this Friday as witnesses in the framework of the case in which the death of their father is being investigated.

Jana (24) was going to testify this Thursday although her lawyers requested a postponement for today, the day for which Gianinna (31) had already been summoned.

The team of prosecutors coordinated by the attorney general of San Isidro, John Broyad, and made up of his two deputies, Cosme Iribarren and Patricio Ferrari, and the prosecutor of Benavídez, Laura Capra, again summoned these two daughters of the Ten to ask them " specific issues that arose throughout the investigation "and after the statements made by both witnesses.

In her first statement on November 28 - three days after the death of "10" - Gianinna had declared that the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, one of the seven defendants who has the cause, was her father's "family doctor" , that the last time he visited his father, he noticed that he was "very swollen" and that

"weeks before his death he presented both physical and cognitive deterioration."

On the same day, his sister Jana also declared in the prosecution, who said that "Luque was the one in charge of everything related to the health" of his father and that when the domiciliary internment was raised "it was said verbatim and several times that he was going to be serious, with nurses 24/7, with specialists, with an ambulance at your disposal. "

In recent days, more defendants joined the case: the head of nurses Mariano Perroni (40), investigated as a possible suspect of a "wrongful death", and Nancy Forlini (52), the doctor who coordinated for the prepaid Swiss Medical la Maradona's home hospitalization.

With Forlini and Perroni, there are already seven defendants in this case whose main suspects are the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque (39) and the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov (35).

Jana Maradona was due to appear this Thursday, but asked to go at the same time as her sister Gianinna.

Photo: Rafael Mario Quinteros

But, in addition, the psychologist Carlos Daniel "Charly" Díaz (29), the morning and afternoon shift nurse Dahiana Gisela Madrid (36), and the night nurse, Ricardo Omar Almirón (37) are charged.

Maradona, the greatest figure in the history of world football, died at the age of 60 on November 25, 2020 at noon, in a house that his family had rented in the private neighborhood of San Andrés, Tigre, two weeks after his discharge. from the Olivos Clinic, where he had undergone neurosurgery for a subdural hematoma in the brain.

The autopsy determined that he died as a result of "acute lung edema secondary to exacerbated chronic heart failure" and discovered

"dilated cardiomyopathy"

in his heart

.

According to the results of the toxicological studies carried out, Maradona did not have alcohol or illegal drugs in his body, although they did detect psychotropic drugs.

On March 8, the medical board with which the prosecutors want to

determine if there was medical malpractice and if the death of the "10" could have been prevented will

begin at the La Plata Scientific Police Superintendency

.

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