Dalma Maradona does not takeoff. The daughter of the Argentine icon testified this Tuesday in Buenos Aires during the trial which tries to clarify the circumstances of the death of the former footballer. According to her, the death of the 1986 world champion “would have been avoided” if the medical team around him had done his job.
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Dalma, 38 years old and older of the two girls whom Diego Maradona had with his ex-wife Claudia Villafañe, was the star witness of the 11th day of trial. Like others since the start of the trial, she has loaded caregivers from her father’s last weeks, and the framework for her convalescence.
“If they had done their job, (In the mort) would have been avoided, “she said, in reference to the medical team and in particular to three of the accused: the attending physician and neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and the psychologist Carlos Diaz.
“They (the family) have deceived in the most cruel way. (…) They made us believe that the only possible option ”was a convalescence at home after its operation, in a house which was rented for the occasion in Tigre (north of Buenos Aires).
Seven practitioners implicated
According to them, “it would be a free home hospitalization”, Diego “was going to have everything in a clinic, but in a house”, with a medical care 24/24 hours, medical devices, an ambulance at the door permanently. “It never happened,” she denounced in an often interrupted deposition by tears. In this house, “disgusting, who felt piss”, a doctor “came to see him only from time to time”.
Seven practitioners – doctors, psychiatrist, psychologist, nurses – are accused of “homicide with possible dol”, characterized when a person commits negligence while knowing that they can lead to death. Mr. Luque, who was close to Maradona, “was his attending physician and I did not think that he would recommend something that was not the best for my father,” said Dalma.
“We did not have much influence, we could say what we thought but did not decide.” Sometimes someone from the nursing team or those around them said “that dad was sleeping, sometimes he didn’t want to see anyone”, that the best “was not to disturb him”.
Last Tuesday, Veronica Ojeda, ex-partner of Diego Maradona with whom she had a son, had testified that the nearby entourage of the star “held him as kidnapped” in the last months of her life. Practitioners tried, who deny any responsibility in death, face 8 to 25 years in prison. The trial must last until July, at the rate of one or two hearings per week.
