Rome, Mar 12 (LaPresse/AP) – An Argentine court has begun the trial of seven medical professionals accused of negligence in the death of Diego Maradona, who died at the age of 60. Maradona was under their care when he suffered a cardiac arrest at his home outside Buenos Aires on 25 November 2020. Three judges will decide whether the defendants, including a neurosurgeon, a psychiatrist and several members of the medical staff, are guilty of manslaughter. The maximum prison sentence for those convicted is 25 years. According to the prosecution, the accused professionals failed to provide adequate medical care.Prosecutor Patricio Ferrari said he will provide evidence that, between 11 and 25 November 2020, Maradona was taken to a house in a private neighbourhood in the city of Tigre, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, without being in ‘full use of his mental faculties’ to decide on home hospitalisation. Ferrari said it was a reckless admission, in which there was no control.‘After condemning him to oblivion in that house… they deliberately and cruelly decided that he should die,’ he said. The prosecutor showed an image of the Pibe de Oro, lying in the bed where he was found dead, his belly visibly swollen. The 1986 World Champion's family, in tears, was present in the courtroom.
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