The trial for Maradona’s death continues with the closing arguments from the plaintiffs representing two of his children

Buenos Aires.- The trial for the death of football legend Diego Armando Maradona will continue this Tuesday with the closing arguments from the plaintiffs Jana Maradona and Diego Fernando Maradona, two of his children.

Seven months after its start, the trial is in its closing arguments stage, in which all parties involved present their final arguments before making the request for sentencing or acquittal for the defendants.

This Tuesday it will be the turn of Felix L’Infante, representing Jana Maradona, and Mario Baudry, representing the star’s youngest son, Diego Fernando Maradona, who will testify before the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) No. 7 in the Buenos Aires town of San Isidro.

Last Thursday, prosecutors Patricio Ferrari and Cosme Iribarren described the treatment the former soccer player received during the two weeks prior to his death as “anarchic” and marked by “absolute disorganization,” and attributed to the defendants various actions and omissions that, they maintained, contributed to his passing.

For the primary care physician, Leopoldo Luque, the home care coordinator for the company Swiss Medical, Nancy Forlini, and the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, the prosecutors requested twelve, ten, and eight years in prison, respectively, in addition to a decade of professional disqualification, for the crime of simple homicide with eventual intent.

Psychologist Carlos Díaz, head nurse Mariano Perroni, and nurse Ricardo Almirón were charged with manslaughter, and sentences of five and four years in prison, along with disqualification for ten and eight years, respectively, were requested for them.

Calls to drop charges against doctor who only visited Maradona

They also requested that the charges be dropped against clinical physician Pedro Di Spagna, who only visited Maradona on one occasion and “did not have the authority or decision-making power to direct the patient’s health,” as they considered.

On Thursday, lawyer Eduardo Ramírez also presented his closing arguments, representing Diego Armando Maradona Sinagra, the eldest of the ‘Diez’s’ children, and asserted that “Diego had a sick heart and the doctors knew it.”

“It was very little that Diego Maradona needed to keep living. He needed medication, he needed a diuretic that would allow him to eliminate the fluid from his body,” said Ramírez, and emphasized that the former soccer player asked Dr. Cosachov for that diuretic, something that is recorded in the messages incorporated as evidence, and it was never administered to him.

Ramírez agreed with the Prosecutor’s Office on the acquittal of Di Spagna and with the request for sentences for the rest of the accused, except regarding the psychiatrist Cosachov, for whom he requested to increase the sentence to ten years in prison.

The trial began on April 14 and held 45 hearings dedicated to the production of evidence, in which 75 testimonies were heard and a hundred messages exchanged between the seven health professionals who are in the dock for the death of the soccer star were exhibited.