Justice | Trials around the death of Maradona | Dalma Maradona: “If the doctors had done their job, his death would have been avoided”

Dalma, 38, eldest of the two daughters of Maradona with her ex-wife Claudia Villafañe, was a star witness on the 11th day of the trial in San Isidro (north of Buenos Aires). And like others since the start of the trial, she has loaded caregivers from her father's last weeks and the framework of her convalescence.

“If they had done their job, (his death) would have been avoided“said Dalma, referring to the medical team and in particular three of the accused: the attending physician and neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and the psychologist Carlos Diaz.

“They (the family) have deceived in the most cruel way (…) they made us believe that the only possible option“was a convalescence at home after her operation, in a house that was rented for the occasion in Tigre (north of Buenos Aires), said Dalma.

According to them, “It would be a serious home hospitalization“, Diego “was going to have everything like in a clinic, but in a house“, With a medical care 24/24, medical devices, an ambulance at the door permanently, she continued. “It never happened“, She denounced in a deposition often interrupted by tears. In this house,”disgusting, which smelled of piss“, a doctor”only came to see him from time to time“.

Maradona died at 60, on November 25, 2020, of a cardiorepiratory crisis complicated by pulmonary edema, in this private residence, where he had been recovering for two weeks after neurosurgery for a hematoma in the head.

Seven practitioners – doctors, psychiatrist, psychologist, nurses – are accused of “homicide with possible dol”, characterized when a person commits negligence while knowing that they can lead to death.

Mr. LUQUE, who was close to Maradona, “was his attending physician and I did not think that he recommends something that would not be the best for my father“continued Dalma. With her sister Gianinna”We did not have much influence, we could say what we thought but did not decide anything“Sometimes, someone from the nursing team or those around them said”that dad was sleeping, sometimes he didn't want to see anyone“, that the best”was not to bother him“.

“With hindsight, we should have decided“. Last Tuesday, Veronica Ojeda, ex-partner mother of a son of Maradona born in 2013, had testified that the nearby entourage of the star”held him as kidnapped“In the last months of his life. The practitioners tried, who deny any responsibility in death, face 8 to 25 years in prison. The trial must last until July, at the rate of one or two hearings per week.