Today a key stage begins in Maradona’s trial
A key stage of the trial for the death of Diego Armando Maradona will begin this Tuesday with the statement of the medical examiner Carlos Mauricio Cassinelliformer director of Legal Medicine of the Scientific Police and one of the experts who participated in the Interdisciplinary Medical Board that in 2021 prepared a report on the death.
After Maradona’s death, on November 25, 2020, Justice formed an Interdisciplinary Medical Board in 2021 made up of official experts – including forensic doctors, a cardiologist, two psychiatrists, a toxicologist, a nephrologist and a hepatologist – as well as experts from the defense and the complaint.
Cassinelli, who also participated in the autopsy that was performed on the body immediately after death, will be the first of the Board’s experts to testify at the trial, thus inaugurating a new stage of the process.
The medical examiner testified in May of this year about his participation in the autopsy, and will testify again this Tuesday, this time about the report prepared in 2021 that concluded that the actions of the health professionals who cared for the star in his last days were “inadequate, deficient and reckless.”
As noted in the 70-page document accessed by EFE, “the life-threatening signs that the patient presented were ignored.” “Considering the clinical, clinical-psychiatric condition and poor general condition, he should have continued his rehabilitation and interdisciplinary treatment in an appropriate institution,” the Board said.
An agony of twelve hours before his death
The soccer star died while undergoing home treatment in a house on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. According to the report, Maradona would have suffered agony “of up to twelve hours” there before his death.
The neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, the psychoanalyst Carlos Díaz, the doctor and coordinator of the Swiss Medical company, Nancy Forlini, the doctor Pedro Di Spagna, the nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni and the nurse Ricardo Almirón, are tried in this process, all for the crime of simple homicide with possible intent.
