A cop that was amongst the preliminary on the scene of Diego Maradona’s fatality 4 years again, knowledgeable a court docket Tuesday he noticed no “medical items” within the area the place the soccer story was getting post-operative remedy in the home.
Officer Lucas Farias affirmed within the check of seven wellness specialists implicated of homicide for his or her affirmed operate in what district attorneys have truly referred to as the “horror theater” of Maradona’s final days.
Farias claimed he “didn’t see medical items in the room. I didn’t see serums that I think should be part of home hospitalization,” describing an intravenous drip.
Farias was simply one in every of 4 legislation enforcement brokers to offer proof Tuesday, per week after the check opened up in San Isidro within the north residential areas of Buenos Aires.
“What first caught my attention about Diego Maradona was his face-up position with an abdomen so swollen it seemed about to explode,” claimed Farias.
“I was shocked to see Maradona in that state, I never thought I’d find myself faced with that image.”
Maradona handed away on November 25, 2020, aged 60, whereas recuperating in the home from thoughts surgical remedy for an embolism, after years preventing drug and alcoholism.
It was recognized he handed away of cardiac arrest and extreme lung edema, an issue the place liquid builds up within the lungs.
On check are a neurosurgeon, a psychoanalyst, a psycho therapist, a scientific organizer, a nursing organizer, a doctor and a night registered nurse implicated of being criminally irresponsible within the remedy they gave to the footballer in his final days.
Prosecutors declare the footballer was abandoned to his future for a “prolonged, agonizing period” previous to his fatality.
The offenders encounter jail phrases of in between 8 and 25 years if based responsible of “homicide with possible intent”– going after a technique regardless of understanding it may well create fatality.
Nearly 120 witnesses are anticipated to affirm within the long-delayed check anticipated to run up till July.
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