The new Court in Argentina for the death of Diego Maradona, after the cancellation of the first proceedings in May, is not expected to begin before the following year, according to participants on Friday (18/7) in a preparatory hearing between the category, lawyers and the new ones.

The first trial was declared invalid at the end of May, after two and a half months of listening, with more than 40 witnesses being examined because of the scandal that led to the exception of one of the three judges because he had been involved in the preparation of a documentary for the trial.

The judge, Hulita Macindac, has since resigned and has been the subject of a criminal procedure for her behavior.

At the end of June, justice set three new judges by drawing, before leaving, citing a health issue. A replacement was set this week, allowing the commencement of preparations for the trial.

“We all agree to start again as soon as possible, but personally I see it very difficult to start the trial before the following year,” Martin Montalto, a lawyer of one of the defendants in the French News Agency (AFP), told Friday (18/7). Frames of the upcoming trial.

Other sources with knowledge of the dossier expressed similar reservations about whether a second trial is possible by the end of 2025. A Veronica lawyer, a former star star, still hoped to hope for a “short” trial.

Technically, the parties have a 10 -day deadline to request the exception of one or more judges as soon as the Trinity is finalized. This deadline was given on Friday, before a further preliminary ruling, probably in early August.

It is also left to examine the case of one of the defendants, Maradona’s personal physician, Leopold Luke, who in the meantime requested that he be tried separately by a jury.

Seven healthcare professionals – doctors, psychiatrist, psychologist, nurses – have to be held accountable for “homicide with possible fraud”, that is, for negligence that were knowingly committed that they could lead to death. They face penalties from 8 to 25 years in prison.

Maradona, a large star of Argentine football, died at the age of 60 on November 25, 2020 of cardiopulmonary opposition and pulmonary edema, after hours of agony according to the accusation, at a home in Tigre, north of Buenos.