On November 25, 2020, at 12:30 p.m., Diego Maradona died of a cardiorepiratory arrest linked to acute edema of the lung, on a medical bed, in a private residence in Tiger, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. A few weeks earlier, he had been operated from a hematoma to the head and hospitalized for eight days.
His body was weakened by several pathologies, the result of an excess life: chronic renal failure, cirrhosis, heart failure, neurological deterioration, alcoholism and dependence on psychotropic drugs. The state of health of the former footballer was known to all: he appeared to be fiery, at the end of October, for his 60th anniversary, at the Gimnasia stadium, a club he trained in the south of the capital.
The trial which opens, Tuesday, March 11, in a court in San Isidro, about thirty kilometers north of Buenos Aires, will however have to determine whether his death is not the consequence of a series of negligence of the medical team deployed at his bedside. The procedure promises to be the height of the excess of the Argentine icon: it should last from four to six months and a large part of the 270 witnesses heard by the investigators will be called to the bar, according to a source within the public prosecutor.
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