The first hearing was expected in October. This is the second postponement
(ANSA) – BUENOS AIRES, SEPTEMBER 12 – The trial against the health workers for the death of Diego Armando Maradona, which occurred in 2020, has been postponed to March 11. The courts announced. This is a new postponement – the first hearing was scheduled for next October – against the health workers accused of ‘potential negligence’ that led to the death of the Argentine champion.
The San Isidro court (north of Buenos Aires) “accepted the request to postpone the hearing” requested by the defense of three of the eight defendants, adjourning the trial to March 11, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. Initially scheduled for June, the trial had already been postponed once, to October 1. One of the defendants, the nurse Gisela Madrid – who from the beginning had said she had only followed the doctors’ instructions – had asked to be judged separately and by a popular jury.
Maradona, Argentine icon and legend of world football, died at the age of 60 from a cardio-respiratory crisis on November 25, 2020, alone, on a medical bed in a residence in Tigre, where he was recovering from neurosurgery for a hematoma on his head.
Twice, in 2022 and then on appeal in March 2023, the courts confirmed the start of a trial for the medical team that was treating Maradona. They are all accused of ‘potential negligence’. The eight professionals under investigation include the attending physician (neurosurgeon), a clinical physician, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a head nurse and nurses. They all remain at large. The crime they are accused of is punishable by 8 to 25 years in prison. (ANSA).