the trial aimed at determining the causes of the death of Diego Maradona began this Wednesday in Argentina

Argentine justice began on Wednesday to judge the causes of the death of Diego Maradona in 2020, with the preliminary hearing of the trial of a nurse from the medical team, pending the main trial of seven practitioners, next March. Gisella Madrid, a nurse who since the beginning of the proceedings said she had only followed the doctors’ instructions, had requested and obtained to be tried separately from the rest of the accused for “homicide with possible fraud“. An offense characterized by negligence, which the perpetrator knows could result in death.

«We will prove that they killed Maradona, but it was not the nurse“, declared to the media including AFP Rodolfo Baqué, lawyer of the nurse, arriving at the hearing in San Isidro (north of Buenos Aires), which was notably attended by Maradona’s ex-partner Veronica Ojeda, and Jana, his daughter from another union. “Do you believe that the nurse could have had the intention, the desire, the fraudulent will, or an economic interest in killing him? This trial is absurd“, Me Baqué told journalists.

Seven appearances in March 2025

At the hearing on Wednesday, the parties were to present their arguments, set the framework for the trial, while awaiting a date for the start of the actual proceedings. That the lawyer wished “urgent», considering it likely in November. In March 2025, seven practitioners – a neurosurgeon and attending physician, a clinical doctor, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a head nurse, nurses – will appear.

Maradona died at the age of 60 from a cardio-respiratory crisis in November 2020, alone on a medical bed in Tigre (north of Buenos Aires), where he was convalescing after neurosurgery for a head hematoma. On Tuesday the same San Isidro court authorized the transfer of Maradona’s body, which rests in a cemetery in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, to a future mausoleum wanted by his children, near the center of the capital, to facilitate tributes.to Argentina’s biggest idol».

The idea of ​​a mausoleum, the “Memorial M10“, had been launched by Maradona’s children, first and foremost his daughters Dalma and Giannina, a year after his death and formalized in October 2023. They then planned a finalized memorial “in 2025», without further details, a deadline all the more uncertain now that the green light from justice took a year.