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Eight medical personnel will face charges for alleged criminal negligence in the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, according to a court ruling made public on Wednesday. No date has been set for the trial of the eight over Maradona’s death in 2020, which prosecutors say was due to “omissions” by his caretakers who “left him to his own devices” during home hospitalization. Maradona died in 2020 at age 60 while recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot and after decades of battling cocaine and alcohol addiction.
Neurosurgeon and family physician Leopoldo Luque, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, psychologist Carlos Diaz, medical coordinator Nancy Forlini and four others, including nurses, were examined.
Prosecutors have asked that they be tried for negligent death.
They claim the team’s mismanagement had left the football legend in a ‘situation of helplessness’.
The suspects face sentences ranging from eight to 25 years in prison.
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According to the prosecutors, the defendants were “the protagonists of an unprecedented, totally flawed and reckless hospitalization at home”, which is said to be responsible for a “series of improvisations, management mistakes and shortcomings”.
Maradona is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players in history.
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