“We want our father to be close to the love of people, and to grant the wish of all those who want to bring him a flower,” explained, in reference to the memorial, his daughter Dalma during a private presentation broadcast on YouTube .
The M10 Memorial, scheduled to open in 2025, will be located on an esplanade in the heart of the capital, in the tourist district of the old port Puerto Madero, and not far from the presidency.
With a covered area of 1000 m2, the memorial, intended as a “place of meeting, admiration and homage”, will be able to welcome a million visitors per year, according to the site “m10memorial.com”.
Access will be free for Argentines, but they can make a donation to the Foundation, which will allow them to put their photo on a “heritage wall” at the memorial.
The Foundation, for its part, was born from the desire to “pay homage to him, preserve his legacy, keep his trace alive,” declared Dalma, at times moved to tears.
It will aim, according to its website, to promote, “with active participation of the community, sporting or cultural projects which promote human development and national identity”. Chaired by Dalma, it will bring together Gianinna, Diego Junior, Jana and Diego Fernando, other children recognized by Maradona, from three different relationships.
At the beginning of October, justice authorized the transfer of Maradona’s body to this future memorial, in order to facilitate tributes from Argentinians and tourists “to Argentina’s greatest idol.”
Maradona, who rests in a cemetery in Bella Vista, a suburb of Buenos Aires, died in November 2020 at the age of 60, of a cardio-respiratory crisis, on a medical bed in Tigre (north of Buenos Aires), where he was recovering from neurosurgery for a head hematoma.
In March 2025 the trial is due to open into the circumstances of his death, and potential negligence. Seven practitioners – a neurosurgeon and attending physician, a clinical doctor, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a head nurse, nurses – must be judged.
Justice has retained the qualification of homicide with dolus eventualis, an offense characterized when a person commits negligence, knowing that this could lead to death. She is punishable by 8 to 25 years in prison.
Par Le360 (with AFP)
01/11/2024 at 10:12 a.m.
