The former bodyguard of Diego Maradona was arrested in the investigation into the player's death.
His last days were described in court as a “house of horrors”, and now Julio Cesar Coria – who worked closely with Diego – has been held after a dramatic turn in the process of seven doctors accused of the care of the star.
Patricio Ferrari public prosecutor accused Coria to be under oath, so that judges had ordered his immediate arrest.
He had given evidence as a witness during the current process, which started on 11 March and will continue until the summer.
Coria, 48, had worked with Maradona for five years and was with him in the house in Tigre, near Buenos Aires, where he died of heart failure on November 25, 2020.
He tried word-of-mouth resuscitation while the Napoli star did not respond in bed.
Coria was called as a witness because of his close relationship with the star – but Ferrari told the court that he wrongly claimed that he had not spoken with Diego's doctor, Leopoldo Duque, before death and not a friend of him.
WhatsApp reports revealed that the couple had discussed Maradona's health and even arranged a barbecue.
In his first statement, Coria also did not mention that psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov had tried resuscitation – only to claim later that she had on the witness bank.
Judges ordered his arrest after a short recess.
He was later seen that he was driven away in a patrol truck, fascinated in the back seat.
Luque, Cosachov and five other health workers stand up for murder with a possible intention, an indictment up to 25 years behind bars.
They include nurses Ricardo Almiron, Nancy Forlini and Mariano Perroni; Psychologist Carlos Diaz; And Doctor Pedro di Spagno.
An eighth person, nurse Gisella Dahiana Madrid, will be tried separately later this year.
The case was initially dealt with as a manslaughter, but was re -classified as murder after a Damning Medical Board report discovered that the Maradona team had acted sufficiently, short and reckless.
To condemn, the court must discover that the doctors could kill in a way they knew – and did nothing to stop.
Ferrari told the court at the start of their Diego trial spent the last days of his life in a 'House of Horrors' after leaving the hospital and agreed with home care.
While opening arguments, Ferrari held a photo of Maradona that was in bed with a bloated stomach under a lifted black T-shirt and told the courtroom: “This is the way he died.”
Luque, who denies misconduct, broke in tears in tears days after Maradona's shock after a search for his house near Buenos Aires.
He claimed: “When I am responsible for something when it comes to Diego, it loved him, took care of him, improving his life to the end and extending.”
After his death it turned out that Maradona was buried without his sick heart – that at 503 grams weighed almost double of a normal heart for a man his age.
Doctor and journalist Nelson Castro said when some of the reason was to prevent obsessed fans from stealing it.
The first court hearing was streamed live online, but it was then decided not to continue with that policy.
Maradona's daughter Jana today told the court during her proof that her sisters Dalma and Gianinna wanted to get their father in a clinic before his death, but said that Leopoldo Luque had rejected the idea.
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