Death of Maradona: the prosecution calls for a lawsuit against the caregivers

The request was made on Wednesday by prosecutors who considered that the “omissions” and poor handling of eight medical professionals in charge of Maradona placed him in a “situation of helplessness”, abandoning him “to his fate” during a “scandalous” hospitalization at home, according to the court file cited by the official Telam news agency.

Maradona died at the age of 60 from a cardio-respiratory crisis on November 25, 2020, on his medical bed in a residence in the north of the Argentine capital, while recovering from neurosurgery.

Neurosurgeon and family doctor Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov are under investigation for his death, as the main people responsible for the health of the ex-footballer.

Psychologist Carlos Díaz, medical coordinator Nancy Forlini and nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni, nurses Ricardo Almirón and Dahiana Madrid, and clinical physician Pedro Pablo Di Spagna are also accused.

The prosecution accuses them of "simple homicide with dolus eventualis", an offense which is characterized when a person commits negligence while knowingly knowing that it can lead to someone's death.

They face sentences ranging from 8 to 25 years in prison.

According to the prosecutors, the defendants "were the protagonists of an unprecedented, totally deficient and reckless hospitalization at home", and would have moreover committed a "series of improvisations, mismanagement and failures".

After this indictment, the defendant's defense must present its arguments and may ask for the case to be dismissed.

The case could then be taken to court in San Isidro, in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires.