On the football field, Diego Maradona was honored as a god, but in his last days the legendary football player would have been treated more than an animal.
This week Argentina was seized by the start of a five -month test in which seven of the people in charge of the man who led the country to the World Cup of 1986 are accused of his murder with possible intention.
Maradona died at the age of 60 of heart disease in his rented house in Tigre, near Buenos Aires, on November 25, 2020, two weeks after undergoing brain operation.
The persecution claims that the team paid to take care of him was criminally negligent.
In heated scenes, the former beloved of Maradona, Veronica Ojeda, was heard to shout 'daughter of a bitch' against one of the accused when the hearing was going on Tuesday.
Outside the court in San Isidro, north of the capital of Argentina, a fan held up a sign with the message “Justice for D10s” – a nickname that Maradona's shirt number and the Spanish word mix for God.
'Kick the bucket'
Others had tears in their eyes while sanging his name.
There have been claims that Maradona drank beer in the morning and sleeping pills in his drink at night while he was under the medical care of the accused.
WhatsApp reports were discovered in which his neurologist, Leopoldo Luque, wrote: “The fat man will eventually start kicking the bucket”.
And it is claimed that Maradona was washed away with a snake instead of being helped in the shower.
The former Barcelona and Napoli player is worshiped in the South -American nation since his moments of individual sparkle – and his notorious handball “Hand of God Goal” against England – she saw the World Cup in Mexico in 1986.
Significant quantities of his fortune, once estimated at £ 75 million, were blown on addictions to alcohol and cocaine, which contributed to his terrible health status.
At the time of his death, his heart weighed 503 grams, which was almost double what it should have been.
But the persecution is that Maradona would have survived with the right medical care.
Main prosecutor Patricio Ferrari said the court: “During this process you will see what reckless home care is – reckless, short, without a precedent, without any form of control during the period that ended with Diego's death.
“In that house of horror where Diego Maradona died, nobody did what to do.”
The problems started for Maradona when he was released in the southern Italian city of Naples for twice that they chose their once low side of the historical league titles in 1987 and 1990.
The Mafia, dominant in the region, kept him with drugs and prostitutes, but he still succeeded in one way or another at the highest level.
Two years before his death, the star told the British documentary maker Asif Kapadia to his time there: “I partyed on cocaine on Sunday to Wednesday. I would come home high on drugs. '
In 1991, traces of cocaine were found in the Urin monster of Maradona and a few weeks later 1.5 g the same medicine was found by the police in his flat in Buenos Aires.
He was later sent home from the 1994 World Cup in the United States after he tested positively on a stimulating agent called Ephedrine.
His attempts to become clean were always short -lived, where hangers are often prepared to get him what substances he wanted.
He also had a vorarious appetite for alcohol, food and young women.
In 2005, the 5ft 5 in Maradona almost weighed the 20th and underwent a gastric band operation.
Emergency surgery
The star had eight children of different mothers who are known, but because his death has emerged at least three other people who claim his descendants.
Only in 2007 did he recognize Diego JNR as his son. He was born in 1986 from a mistress.
Over the years there were a number of health transitions, including treated by doctors during the break when he saw Argentina playing at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
The most serious was on November 3, 2020, when he underwent an emergency operation in the La Plata hospital in Buenos Aires for a blood clot on his brain.
His personal doctor, neurosurgeon Luque, conducted what a successful operation seemed to be.
But there was a question whether the patient would be better off to stay in the hospital, where there would be quick access to emergency care, or whether he would recover in a home environment instead.
Luque, who is one of the seven accused, agreed to bring the Legend's rental home in Tigre in Maradona on 11 November.
Public Prosecutor Ferrari said the court: “The victim was clearly not complete use of his mental abilities and even less could decide on his health.
“He entered that place for clinical rehabilitation and medical care for at home that we can undoubtedly say was disastrous.”
The prosecutor claims that there was no defibrillator at hand to restart Maradona's heart when he went into a cardiac arrest and that the medical team did not perform the necessary checks.
Prior to the beginning of the process, Griselda Morel, an educational psychologist who worked with the eight -year -old son of Maradona and visited his house that the sick star got alcohol.
She claimed: 'If he came up at 9 am and asked for beer, he got it.
“One of his preservators crushed tablets he took and put them in his beer, so he didn't cause a hassle at night.”
Griselda said that Maradona was so confused that he would speak on an imaginary phone.
The other six accused his psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, addiction specialist Carlos Diaz, Doctor Nancy Forlini, nurse coordinator Mariano Perroni, nurse Ricardo Almiron and clinical doctor Pedro Pablo di Spagna.
Heart in Formaldehyde
Another nurse, Gisela Dahiana Madrid, has asked to be tried separately.
Gisela's lawyer, Rodolfo Baque, claimed that when the nurse warned that Maradona's heart rate reached a high 115 beats per minute in the days before his death, “nothing” was done about it.
When the former football player was found around 12.30 pm around 12.30 pm around 12.30 pm, the medical team spent 45 minutes trying to breathe new life into him.
But experts believe that he died between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m., suggesting that nobody has checked the patient on the patient for at least six and a half hours.
Post-mortem blood and urine tests revealed that Maradona had received a cocktail from prescription drugs, including quetiapine, venlafaxine and levetiracetam that are used to treat depression, panic attacks and epilepsy, among other things.
Fernando Burlando, the lawyer who represents the daughters of Maradona Dalma and Gianinna, said extra -dish that the player had been treated as an animal and went so far that he called it 'murder'.
The suspect is on trial for murder of possible intention, which could lead to 25-year prison sentences. They all deny the charges.
Luque said, “Death was unexpected, suddenly, during sleep hours without offering us.”
The complex medical process lasts until July and see around 100 witnesses provide evidence.
The final judgment will be delivered by three judges.
One of the most important evidence will be the heart of Maradona, which has been held in a police laboratory since his death in Formaldehyde.
One of the most important supporting documents will be the heart of Maradona, which has been stored in a police laboratory in Formaldehyde.
There were claims that fans had been deported to steal the organ. And during the 2022 World Cup, Argentinian fans campaigned to be flown to the heart to organize Nation Qatar together with the country's football team.
Why the heart finally failed Maradona – a lion on the football field – will certainly inspire a passionate response from dedicated fans, whatever the court determines.
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