The former bodyguard of Diego Maradona was arrested on suspicion of Meineed.
The Buenos Aires Court tried seven of the eight people accused of the death of the football legend, ordered the detention of Julio Cesar Coria after a public prosecutor dramatically accused him of false testimonies.
He had given evidence as a witness during the current process, which started on 11 March and will continue until the summer.
Patricio Ferrari claimed that Coria had lied when he said he had not spoken with Diego's Medic Leopoldo Luque before the death of the football player and was not the friend of the neurosurgeon.
The public prosecutor produced a series of WhatsApp messages between the ex-bodyguard and Luque, one of the defendants who ended up, including an invitation for a barbecue and conversations about Maradona's health.
Mr. Ferrari also claimed that Coria had destroyed herself by mentioning that another suspect, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, had performed resuscitation on Diego when he made a first sworn explanation, but claimed from the witness bank that she had tried to revive the football player.
Trial Judges ordered his arrest after a short break while they consulted with the prosecution request.
Coria was called as a witness because of his close relationship with Maradona prior to his death.
He was in the house of Diego on November 25, 2020 – the day that the former Star of Barcelona and Napoli died of heart failure in a house in Tigre near Buenos Aires, to which he had agreed to be interned shortly after leaving the hospital after a brain blood clot.
Luque, Cosachov and five other health workers are Ricardo Almiron in the DOK – nurses; 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.
They are accused of murder and are confronted with a maximum of 25 years in prison if they are convicted.
Mr. Ferrari told the court at the start of their Diego trial spent the last days of his life in a 'Huis van Horror' after he left the hospital and agreed to home care.
During a hard opening speech at the start of the process, Mr. Ferrari held a photo up in the full courtroom of the man who was considered by many as the best football player ever in the world, lying on his back in bed with his bloated stomach exposed under a raised black T-shirt and said, “This is the way in which he died.”
The criminal investigation that was launched shortly after Maradona was found lifeless in bed was initially classified as a manslaughter.
It was again classified as a murder investigation after a damn report from a medical council that concluded that the Maradona care team acted 'insufficient, deficient and reckless'.
A conviction about the indictment that the seven defendants are tried would bear a prison sentence of eight and 25 years until the Argentinian law if the health workers under the microscope were found guilty of acting in a way they knew could lead to someone's death, but did nothing to avoid it.
Luque, who denies misconduct, broke into tears in tears days after Maradona's shock after a search in his house near Buenos Aires and claimed: “When I am responsible for something when it comes to Diego, it was his, made his life improved to the end and expand.”
After his death it appeared that Maradona was buried without his sick heart, which weighed almost double of a normal heart for a man's age on 503 grams.
Doctor and journalist Nelson Castro said when some of the reason was to prevent 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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