The trial of the accused for the death of Maradona begins – From 8 to 25 years in prison!

The trial of the defendants for his death begins Diego Armando Maradonawho passed away on November 25, 2020.

It was confirmed this Tuesday that the neurosurgeon Leopold Lukethe psychiatrist Agustina Kosatsovand the other six health professionals charged in his death “Dieguito” they will be brought to trial, accused that they committed an “intentional homicide”as prosecutors and the judge in the case had ordered last year.

The decision was unanimously approved by a decision of the appellate court, composed of judges Carlos Fabian Blanco, Gustavo Adrian Erbel and Ernesto García Maañon.

The eight defendants face 8 to 25 years in prison. In addition to the aforementioned Luque, Kosatsov, the remaining six are the psychologist Carlos Angel Charlie Diaz, the Swiss Nancy Edith Forlini, the assistant nurse Mariano Ariel Peroni, the nurses Diana Hisel Madrid, Ricardo Omar Almiron and the doctor Pedro Pablo Di Spagna.

Maradona died at the age of 60 of pulmonary edema and heart failure on 25 November 2020 at a home in the private neighborhood of San Andres in Tigre, where he was undergoing home treatment for his alcohol addiction, having also undergone head surgery .