The protest in Buenos Aires for the death of Diego Armando Maradona, this Wednesday.AGUSTIN MARCARIAN / Reuters
Hundreds of Argentine fans demonstrated this Wednesday around the Obelisk of Buenos Aires, a traditional epicenter of football festivities, to demand justice for Diego Armando Maradona, who died on November 25 at the age of 60 in circumstances investigated by a prosecutor's office in Argentina.
The so-called 10M demonstration was called by social networks at the initiative of groups of Maradona fans, including the Maradona church, under the slogan “Justice for Diego.
He did not die, they killed him ”.
The protest was attended by Dalma and Gianinna, daughters of the former Argentine soccer player, and the ex-wife Claudia Villafañe.
The event was also attended by one of the five children of Pelusa, Diego Fernando, eight years old with his mother Verónica Ojeda, ex-partner of the world champion in 1986. The emblematic captain of the Albiceleste team died on November 25 in a temporary residence at the north of Buenos Aires, due to both heart and respiratory crisis.
The organizers had asked to march "in peace", with a mask and social distance to avoid contagion of covid-19, but it was not fulfilled.
As the night wore on, the weather became more tense.
"Morla 'we're going' to kill you ... not even the federal [police] will save you," they sang in a threatening message addressed to Matías Morla, Maradona's last lawyer and representative, highly criticized by the daughters and who would have designated to the medical team who treated him at the end of his life.
The San Isidro attorney general's office seeks to determine whether Maradona's death could have occurred due to the abandonment of a person or was a manslaughter (involuntary).
They are investigated in the case, therefore accused, the neurosurgeon and general practitioner of Maradona, Leopoldo Luque, the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and the psychologist Carlos Díaz, as well as a nurse, a nurse, a coordinating doctor and a nurse coordinator.
The Argentine press released numerous WhatsApp audios of conversations between the accused, in which they are heard speaking with contempt of the former player.
"I want to be present trying to get justice once again done in Argentina because Maradona has been allowed to die and it is not fair, it is not fair that a person who gave us so much to Argentines, ends up that way," he told France. Presse Abel Chorolque, a 44-year-old taxi driver.
The protesters expressed their devotion to who for many was the best player in history, with large blue and white flags, displaying tattoos with the image of the idol.
“That day [November 25] we all died a little bit.
He is like a son, a brother to each one.
We would go crazy to touch it and those who had it couldn't take care of it ”, declared a man under a blue and yellow umbrella, the colors of Boca Juniors, the club that Maradona was a fan of and one of the teams he played for.
“The guilty must be in prison, they killed Diego, Diego did not die.
Here is the town,
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, Diego did not die, Diego is still in town, ”said Franco Ayala, 25 years old.