“Those days nobody came”, said Esposito, who clarified that his function in the house was to stay with Diego “to sleep, like any family member.”
“The days before (he passed away) he was in low spirits, he looked bad. The last two days he did not leave the room”said the witness.
Asked if he noticed any physical changes, he replied: “It was more bloated” and who commented on it “with the nurse”, in reference to Ricardo Almiron, one of the defendants.
“I know they discussed it with the doctor (Leopoldo) Luque. I don’t know if anyone did anything about it.”He added, mentioning his uncle’s general practitioner and one of the main defendants in the case. In addition, he affirmed that the day before the death, Maradona “did not want to eat, did not eat food”.
“For me Diego Maradona let himself be, he did not want anything else to be done”, he pointed Esposito, son of Maria Rosa Maradona, one of the sisters of the former Argentine team captain.
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While, Orange told prosecutors that in a pandemic “Diego begins with a more excessive consumption of alcohol, he was away from Rocío (Oliva) and it was costing him a bit that” and that from this and after one of his sisters convinced him, he began to work with the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, one of the accused.
The witness recalled that on his last birthday, October 30 of last year, “Diego was quite sad because he wanted to get all his children together, he had tried it at a meal but it did not turn out as expected.”
From that day, he also remembered that he went to the Gymnastics and Fencing -in what was the last public appearance of the star-, to speak with Marcelo tinelli, who gave him a plaque for his 60th birthday, of something related to his ex-girlfriend, Oliva.
“Diego had spoken with Tinelli to whom he sent a message saying that he saw Rocío in ‘Controversy at the bar’, if he could do something to get her thrown out, but not out of malice but to get her back to him. He was obsessed with Rocío, always. That was the trigger “he commented.
Orange He recalled that he had interference in a check-up that was done at the clinic Ipensa de la Plata, because he called the doctor Luque to tell him that Diego “was not doing well”, because he saw him “talking on the phone with your hand”.
Regarding the subdural hematoma operation to which he was subjected at the Olivos Clinic, he recalled that “Diego wanted to hit the doctors when they wanted to do a CT scan” So what Luque and one of the doctors “They almost beat each other to the door of the room.”
Consulted by the rented house in the neighborhood San Andrés de Tigre for home hospitalization and where he died on “10”, Orange explained that in a meeting with the family and the doctors it was agreed that it was “to pass abstinence” to alcohol, and what “the choice was Diego, Gianinna and Jana”, although he clarified that the idea was for it to be for a short term, since in December he hoped to be able to get a house in better conditions in “Castores”, one of the private neighborhoods of Nordelta.
“Diego to the daughters, I think to Gianinna, he said ‘I already know that cocaine did me wrong, now I know it’s alcohol, I’m going to quit’, he transmitted it to her”recalled the former secretary of “10”.
In addition, he said that on some occasion he “anger” with Cosachov and the psychologist Carlos Diaz -also charged-, because he told them to go see him “to reactivate it” when Diego he threw himself on the bed.
Orange he said that in those days Maradona He said: “I don’t want to see anyone because they want to admit me again. If the doctors leave, I get up.”
To questions from the prosecutors, Orange He recognized that those last days he saw him Maradona “bloated”, one of the signs of edema and heart problems that caused his death.
In this regard, he said that he asked another of the accused, the nurse Dahiana Gisela Madrid, if it was because of the medication, and if she could consult, but that they were told that “it was because I was lying down a lot”.
When one of the chats incorporated to the cause of your communications with Luque, also admitted that he warned the neurosurgeon about this issue “on the 17th”, that is, eight days before death.
Orange He also assured that it was his own decision Maradona having thrown out therapeutic companions and prepaid doctors who visited him at the home of Tiger for different altercations he had with them and in both cases it was because they talked to him about soccer.
“Later Diego says that he had come as a cholulo. Because one of the doctors had come with a football shirt and was talking to him. Diego was bothered by that”, he counted.
About alcohol intake, in the previous stage in which Maradona I lived in Brandsen, both agreed that it was their own Diego the one who sent to buy or received as gifts wine or bottles of beer from the brand “Corona”.
“The alcohol intake occurred when Diego Maradona wanted to”, said Esposito on the point, although he clarified that in the house of Tigre “did not take, one hundred percent no”.
And about the consumption of marijuana on Brandsen, Orange clarified: “They were the sayings of all but I do not know because I never saw it.”
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