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While they were due to start on Monday, the interrogations of the seven people heard as part of the investigation into the death of Diego Maradona, which occurred on November 25, 2020, were postponed to June 14, sources learned on Friday. concordant.
These seven people, members of the football legend's medical team accused of "manslaughter with aggravating circumstances", were to be questioned from Monday by an examining magistrate before being possibly charged.
In this case, they would risk between 8 and 25 years in prison.
There was medical negligence according to the prosecution
The public prosecutor's office of San Isidro (suburb of Buenos Aires), in charge of the investigation, considers that Maradona's death is the result of professional misconduct and negligence on the part of the medical team which caused the deterioration of his health and death.
Maradona, who suffered from kidney, liver and heart problems, died of a heart attack just weeks after undergoing brain surgery for a blood clot.
He was 60 years old.
An expert report, published in early May, concluded that the former footballer had been "abandoned to his fate" by his healthcare team, whose "inadequate, deficient and reckless" treatment led him to slow death.
The death of Maradona, considered a football genius, created a planetary shock wave and upset Argentina.
Tens of thousands of people attended the wake of her remains around the presidential palace, where she had been transported.
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Death of Maradona: The medical team now accused of intentional homicide
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Death of Maradona: The medical team now accused of intentional homicide
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