They demand that the medical personnel who treated Maradona be tried for murder.

Prosecutors are investigating the 2020 death in Argentina of the soccer legend Diego Maradona They demanded that the medical staff who treated him be tried for murder.

The request was made Wednesday by prosecutors who said the “omissions” and misconduct of the eight medical professionals who supervised Maradona put him in a “situation of incompetence” by abandoning him. “on his fate” during a “scandalous” hospitalization. , according to the judicial file cited by the official Télam news agency.

Maradona died at the age of 60 due to a cardiorespiratory crisis on November 25, 2020, on his medical stretcher in a residence north of the Argentine capital, while recovering from neurosurgery.

Neurosurgeon and family doctor Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov are being investigated for his death, as the primary people responsible for the former soccer player’s health.

Psychologist Carlos Díaz, medical coordinator Nancy Forlini and nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni, nurses Ricardo Almirón and Dahiana Madrid, and clinician Pedro Pablo Di Spagna are also charged.

The Prosecutor’s Office accuses them of “simple homicide with eventual intent”, a crime characterized when a person commits negligence because it knows it could cause someone’s death. They face sentences ranging from 8 to 25 years in prison.

The defense must present its arguments and may request to dismiss the case

According to prosecutors, the defendants were “the protagonists of an unprecedented home hospitalization, utterly careless and reckless,” and allegedly also committed “a series of improvisations, mismanagement and omissions. “

After this accusation, the defendant’s defense must present their arguments and may request to dismiss the case. The case could be taken to the courts of San Isidro, in the northern suburb of Buenos Aires.