He Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 3 of San Isidro will judge the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and the other six health professionals accused of “simple homicide with possible intent” of Diego Armando Maradonareported judicial sources.
This court was drawn to intervene in the debate, after last month the prosecutors Patricio Ferrari and Cosme Iribarren They asked the judge of Guarantees 5 Sanisidrense, Diego Efraín Martínezto speed up this process.
Judicial sources informed Télam that the aforementioned court will be made up of the judge Veronica Di Tomasso and the magistrate Maximiliano Savarinowhile the third member will be drawn.
Oral trial for the accused cocho
On April 18, Chamber III of the Court of Appeals and Guarantees of San Isidro confirmed that the eight defendants will go to trial accused of having committed “simple homicide with possible intent,” as prosecutors had ordered last year. and the judge of the case.
The waiters Carlos Fabián Blanco, Gustavo Adrián Herbel and Ernesto García Maañón had highlighted in its ruling six months ago: “The public prosecution made a complete description of Fact 1 (the eventual intentional homicide of Maradona), listing the actions or omissions that they considered reproachable by each of the accused and that, in their opinion, would have influenced the fatal outcome reported.”.
“The prosecution begins its accusation by indicating who were in charge of the patient’s care, locating the situation in time and place, and then specifically referring to how the performance of each of them was, according to the roles assumed, establishing how their misconduct determined the death of the patient. Maradona”Judge Herbel said in his opinion.
The role of the medical board
The judges of the Chamber also endorsed the key Medical Board which complicated the eight accused health officials and rejected the dismissals and the change of classification that several of the defenses had proposed, including those of Luque and Cosachov, due to the figure of “wrongful homicide” (with a penalty of less than 1 to 5 years in prison).
In addition to the aforementioned Luque (41) and Cosachov (37), the other six defendants in the case are the psychologist Carlos Ángel “Charly” Díaz (30); the coordinating doctor of the Swiss Medical prepaid company, Nancy Edith Forlini (53); the nursing coordinator Mariano Ariel Perroni (41); the nurses Dahiana Gisela Madrid (38) and Ricardo Omar Almirón (39); and the clinical doctor Pedro Pablo Di Spagna (49).
The team of prosecutors accused the eight of them as co-authors of “simple homicide with possible intent”, with a penalty of between 8 and 25 years in prison.
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On June 22 of last year, the judge of Guarantees 2 of San Isidro, Orlando Abel Diazwho later excused himself and his colleague Martínez began to intervene in the case, took the file to an oral trial, but the defense of the eight defendants appealed that resolution and since then it has been under the analysis of Chamber III of the Appeals Chamber and Guarantees of San Isidro, which in March held a series of oral hearings with the defenses and in April issued their resolution.
When he brought the case to trial, the judge Diaz He maintained that the eight defendants did not comply “with the mandate to act that good medical practice placed in their heads,” and that as “guarantors” of the former soccer player’s condition, they had the possibility of “reversing” his cardiac condition and they did not do so. .
The prosecutors Ferrari, Iribarren and Laura Capra and Judge Díaz They agreed that all of them must face charges as alleged co-authors of a “simple homicide with possible intent.”
According to the fiscal hypothesis raised in the request for submission to trial, Maradona’s medical team was “deficient”, “reckless” and “indifferent”, they knew that the “10” could die in the state in which he was and did not do so. nothing to avoid it.
Maradona, one of the greatest figures in the history of world football, died at the age of 60 from pulmonary edema and heart failure on November 25, 2020 in a house in the private neighborhood of San Andrés, in Tigre, where he was undergoing a questionable home confinement due to his addiction to alcohol and after having undergone neurosurgery.
The autopsy established that he died as a result of “acute pulmonary edema secondary to exacerbated chronic heart failure” and discovered “dilated cardiomyopathy” in his heart.
Source: Ambito
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