The San Isidro Court of Appeals set for March 7 the key oral hearing that will define whether the cause of the death of Diego Armando Maradona finally reaches oral trial as a “possible intentional homicide” or with a milder qualification for the eight accused health professionals who could end up sentenced to between 8 and 25 years.
Chamber III of the aforementioned court notified the parties that the hearing will be held that day starting at 11:30 a.m., although not in the San Isidro courts, but virtually and through the Teams platform.
Those accused of the death of the former soccer player are those who had some degree of participation in the alleged “home hospitalization” carried out in Tigre’s house, where Diego finally died: the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luciano Luque, the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, the psychologist Carlos Ángel Díaz , Nancy Edith Forlini, the nurses Gisella Dahiana Madrid and Ricardo Omar Almirón, their boss Mariano Perroni and the clinical doctor Pedro Pablo Di Spagna.
The team of three prosecutors that the attorney general of San Isidro, John Broyad, composed especially for this complex case, and that is made up of his deputy attorneys general, Patricio Ferrari and Cosme Iribarren, and by the prosecutor of Benavídez, Laura Capra, accused them at eight as co-authors of a “simple homicide with eventual intent”, with a penalty of between 8 and 25 years in prison.
In turn, almost eight months ago the judge of Guarantees 2 of San Isidro, Orlando Abel Díaz, after the request of the team of prosecutors who investigated the case, raised the file to oral trial, but the defenses of the eight defendants appealed that resolution and since then the case has been under analysis by Chamber III of the San Isidro Court of Appeals and Guarantees until the first movement emerged in the last few hours.
It will be the chambermaids Gustavo Adrián Herbel and Carlos Fabián Blanco -and if there is dissent, Ernesto García Maañón will join-, who will define the future of the eight health professionals, after this hearing scheduled for March 7.
Only if the Chamber of San Isidro confirms everything that has been done in the investigation, the case will go to a lottery to designate the San Isidro Oral Criminal Court that must judge, according to estimates, not before the second semester of 2023, the defendants.
Maradona, one of the greatest figures in the history of world soccer, died at the age of 60 of 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 hospitalization. home for 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.
The chats between the defendants made it clear that Maradona had been deteriorating for days, that he was not eating well, that he did not get out of bed and that he was swollen and had tachycardia, signs of heart failure that none of the treating professionals took into account. seriously to prevent the outcome.
