The trial of the eight health workers for possible negligence that led to his death was postponed to October 1st Diego Maradona in 2020. The court also decided not to approve for the time being the request to transfer the body of “Dieguito” to a mausoleum, submitted by his children.
Maradona died after a cardiopulmonary arrest on November 25, 2020 aged 60, alone, in medical bed at residence in Tigre, north of Buenos Aires, recovering from neurosurgery for brain hematoma.
As for them defendantsit is a neurosurgeon and attending physician, a clinician, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a head nurse and nurses, who remain single.
The defendants had contested either their arraignment or the charge against them, but on appeal they maintained the characterization of “homicide with dolus eventualis”, that is, an offense characterized when a person commits negligence knowing that this could lead to death. Felony, punishable by imprisonment from 8 to 25 years.
On Wednesday, the appeals division of the Court of San Ysidro, in the province of Buenos Aires, decided to “suspend the hearing scheduled for June 4 and reschedule it for October 1 from 9:30 am.” local time”.
According to the court, there are “a number of issues raised by the various parties that still need to be resolved before the hearing begins.”
Among those appeals, a nurse – who initially said she had only followed doctors’ orders – asked to be judged separately, while also asking for equal treatment.
Given the technical nature of the arguments and the time required, the lawyer for Maradona’s daughters, Dalma and Gianina, had in turn asked for the trial to be postponed, which the court granted.
In addition, in the same resolution on Wednesday, the judge decided not to accept “for now, the transfer of the remains” of Maradona, a request submitted a few weeks ago by his daughters and his ex-partner, Veronica Ojeda.
The relevant request concerns the transfer of Maradona’s remains, which are in a private cemetery in Bella Vista, a suburb of Buenos Aires, in the central district of Puerto Madero, in order to become a mausoleum where “the people of Argentina and the citizens of the world , they will be able to pay tribute to him who was the biggest idol of Argentina”.
The judge justified his interim decision on “possible measures that could be required” in the context of the trial.
Source: Sport Fm
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