Diego Maradona’s daughter testifies towards late soccer star’s physician for negligence

One in all Diego Maradona’s daughters testified Tuesday that her father’s major care doctor could not clarify to her what kind of therapy the soccer nice was receiving and blamed the physician for recommending that her father be moved to house care earlier than his dying in 2020.

Leopoldo Luque, a neurosurgeon who was Maradona’s major care physician, is one in all seven medical professionals on trial accused of negligence in Maradona’s dying.

Maradona had surgical procedure for a hematoma that fashioned between his cranium and mind and stayed in intensive care at Los Olivos clinic between Nov. 4-11, 2020. He then was despatched to get better at a personal house the place he died two weeks later on the age of 60.

Gianinna Maradona advised the court docket that her father’s well being was badly deteriorating a month earlier than his dying and that she made this remark to Luque on a number of events.

The deficiencies in Maradona’s house care are one of many prosecution’s key items of proof. A heart specialist testified that he was towards shifting Maradona from the Olivos Clinic.

Three judges will determine whether or not these charged are responsible of manslaughter. The utmost jail sentence is 25 years.

“I advised Luque that my dad appeared very misplaced, that he wasn’t pleased, and that he couldn’t stroll. He advised me there have been ups and downs in his days,” mentioned the daughter of “El Diez.”

Recalling Maradona’s sixtieth birthday on Oct. 30, Giannina testified that when she visited him at house, “he checked out us however didn’t perceive. I requested him if he felt OK, and he mentioned no, that he felt dangerous.”

The witness acknowledged that each time she requested the physician to elucidate why her father “was getting worse and worse he couldn’t inform me with certainty what therapy he was present process.”

She recounted that Luque, together with psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and psychologist Carlos Daz, two different defendants, proposed house confinement for Maradona, and she or he ended up trusting the choice regardless that she didn’t initially agree.

“I selected to imagine that they, who have been monitoring my father’s well being, have been giving us the very best proposal. Trying again I really feel prefer it was all a play to maintain my father in a darkish, ugly, and lonely place,” mentioned Maradona’s daughter.

Clinic medical director Pablo Dimitroff testified that after the surgical procedure Maradona had “a fancy psychomotor excitation episode” that resembled alcohol withdrawal.

Dimitroff additionally suggested towards house confinement, however Luque finally knowledgeable him of the choice to maneuver Maradona out of the clinic.