Leopoldo Luque and Agustina Cosachov, Maradona’s neurosurgeon and psychiatrist, are two of the 8 accused of “simple homicide due to possible intent.”
On June 4, the trial for the death of Diego Maradona will begin, with eight accused for “simple homicide due to possible intent”, who could face sentences of up to 25 years in prison. Among them are the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov.
The trial is in charge of the Oral Criminal Court 3 of San Isidro, which accepted that A new medical examination is carried out on “10”, and a visual inspection in the house where he died, located in the town of Tigre, where he had stayed after his operation for a subdural hematoma. The trial will take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, in which It is expected that more than 200 witnesses will be heard.
The carrying out of the medical expertise was requested above all by the lawyers of Luque and Cosachov -Julio Rivas and Vadim Mischancuh respectively. This would happen to the only one carried out to date, which produced results that indicated that the medical care received was “inappropriate, reckless and deficient”. However, the Court rejected the request of Rodolfo Baqué, lawyer for nurse Daiana Madrid, that the accused be tried by jury.
The death of Diego Maradona
The popular idol died on November 25, 2020, at the age of 65, due to a “Acute pulmonary edema secondary to exacerbated chronic heart failure”according to the results of the autopsy, which also showed that “El Diego” had “dilated cardiomyopathy.”
Maradona He was directing Gimnasia de La Plata at that time. He suffered from alcohol addiction problems and had been admitted to a clinic in La Plata on November 2 after suffering from anemia and dehydration. A day later he was transferred to a sanatorium in the town of Olivos, where he underwent surgery for a subdural hematoma. On November 11, he was discharged and transferred to a house in a private neighborhood of Tigre, where he was under the care of a group of doctors and nurses. Nevertheless, He died two weeks later.
The news shocked the entire world, and a public wake was held at the Casa Rosada, attended by around a million people.
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