Reportage.Maradona ended up in the middle of a "total and absolute lack of control": "If you see where he died, you die"
News.The last words of Maradona before dying: "I feel bad"
There are people who were too great in life for death to end it.
This is the case of
Diego Maradona
: he may have left on November 25, 2020 at age 60, but he continues to do and undo from beyond.
In a few days he left a trail of victims, from his closest family and his neurosurgeon, to his lawyer, through the very president of the Nation and the national rugby team.
All were hit by the 'Maradona effect'.
Dalma
and
Gianinna
, the daughters that M
aradona had with
Claudia Villafañe
, his youthful love and wife for many years, cried for the father, as was logical, but once images of the place where the former footballer spent his last days spread, the question circulated on all kinds of screens in a country who has seven news channels: Couldn't your family have done a little more?
How is it that a figure of global resonance, idol of millions, dies in a makeshift room in a house where he was not being cared for properly?
Your neurosurgeon
The questions are legitimate, but require context: Maradona was an unruly man who "hated doctors," according to several members of his environment.
A man who, in addition, had made very harsh statements against those two daughters and their mother just months ago.
A man who did not allow the nurses to enter his room and who slapped and insulted
Leopoldo Luque
, the neurosurgeon who operated on his head a month ago and who ended up, unfortunately, designated as "the doctor" in charge of the health of the world champion of Mexico 86. While he cries before the cameras and becomes a media figure To which half the country analyzes, Luque denies having been the man in charge of Maradona's health.
It was just his neurosurgeon, he says.
And your friend.
That last year he wrote quite different things on social networks does not help him.
In any case, it is justice that will decide: the 'Maradona case' is in the hands of a group of four highly prestigious prosecutors who have already convened a medical board.
The results will be known next year, but what is aimed at establishing is whether Maradona's death could be prevented.
Was someone in charge of his health?
His lawyer
"It is a complex case and we believe that it deserves the analysis of the most prestigious experts and medical professionals," one of the researchers explained to 'Clarín0. There, no doubt, Maradona's lawyer will have a lot to say,
Matías Morla
, which in recent days received strong criticism.
A company of which he is the owner, Sattvico, received in 2018 the total transfer of the rights to the "Diego Armando Maradona" brand.
And that includes sub-brands such as "the hand of God", "el 10", "el Diego", and even striking phrases such as "the turtle escaped them."
Anyone who wants to do a business around Maradona will have to go through Morla. "In Buenos Aires a 'Diego Maradona tourist route' will soon be created that will cover all the milestones of his life in Argentina. Or a museum. Or soccer schools And whoever seeks that is going to have to negotiate with Morla, "he told EL MUNDO
Marcelo Bee Sellares
, a lawyer specializing in sports law. The news sparked criticism and furious social media campaigns against Morla.
If Maradona lived, he would most likely defend him: it was Morla who brought him all kinds of businesses in recent years and made him recover his assets.
By giving Morla his rights, Maradona shows his gratitude and partially complies with the threat that he was not going to leave anything to his children. This will not be the case, because the Argentine civil code contemplates that two-thirds of the inheritance go to the children.
The first to appear before the judge was Jana, one of those who carried the coffin at the funeral on November 26 and who was only recognized by Maradona at age 18.
Five are the official children and perhaps up to six more are not yet recognized.
Jose Nunez
, lawyer for Santiago Lara, one of Maradona's alleged unrecognized sons, asks for the exhumation of the body, says he does not trust the viscera and genetic material that the justice preserved.
"I understand that the lady
Claudia Villafañe
It has stored Maradona's blood.
Who can assure me that the chain of custody was observed?
With all the things that happen in this cause ... ".
The president and even the rugby team
Things happen, yes.
Days after Maradona's chaotic wake at the Casa Rosada, videos began to circulate in which the president was clearly seen
Alberto Fernandez
, megaphone in hand trying to order a mob that would end up overcoming the accesses to the government headquarters and unleashing violence and lack of control in a place that, it is supposed, should be the safest and best controlled in the country.
Neither Maradona's coffin nor the president himself enjoyed that security.According to local media, the tension at the gates of the Casa Rosada grew precisely when the vice president entered it
Cristina Kirchner
.
The doors closed, access to the wake was paralyzed and tempers flared.
Almost at the same time that Cristina entered the government headquarters, seven buses arrived with the brave bar of Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, the team of the former president, also the one that Maradona was leading when he found his death. "If that wasn't there. coordinated we live in a world of coincidences ", said
Juan Manuel Lugones
, former head of the Agency for the Prevention of Violence (Aprevide), who filed a legal complaint to investigate whether a "liberated zone" was created for the bars to enter the presidential palace. The collusion between the Argentine political power and the violent football surprises few at this point.
What no one expected was that a failed tribute to Maradona by Los Pumas, the rugby team, in a match against the All Blacks, would end in a profound crisis in that sport.
Social networks began to remember tweets from eight years ago from three team players, including the captain,
Pablo Matera
"Nice morning to go out in the car to step on blacks," one of them said, while others feasted on Bolivian and Paraguayan immigrants and denigrated the maids.
Argentine rugby, which days before had defeated the All Blacks for the first time in history, entered a crisis from which it will be difficult to get out.
Just one more sample of what is capable of achieving a "Maradona effect" that is just beginning to be felt.
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