Argentine justice authorized, Tuesday 1Ahem In October, the transfer of the body of Diego Maradona, who died in 2020, to a future mausoleum loved by his children, in a central neighborhood of Buenos Aires, to facilitate tributes. “to the greatest idol of Argentina”.
The decision, in a resolution from the San Isidro court (north of Buenos Aires), cited by several Argentine media, comes a few months before a first trial, that of Gisela Madrid, a nurse member of Maradona’s medical team who, since From the beginning, she said that she had only followed the doctors’ instructions and had managed to be tried separately.
The main trial of seven professionals (a neurosurgeon and treating doctor, a clinical doctor, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a head of nursing and nurses) is scheduled, after several postponements, for March 2025.
Towards the old port of Puerto Madero
Regarding the remains, the San Isidro court initially, in May, decided not to authorize the transfer, arguing “possible measures that may be necessary”in particular the exhumation, within the framework of the process, after the objection of certain parties.
The court noted on Tuesday that there is no longer “opposition of any party”and consider that a “A favorable response must be given” for the good of the children.
The idea, launched a year after the death of Diego Maradona and formalized in 2023, is to move the remains of the Argentine soccer icon, who rests in a private cemetery in Bella Vista, a suburb of Buenos Aires, in the Centro and Antiguo neighborhoods. . Port of Puerto Madero.
In their initial petition, the children planned for a memorial to be completed in 2025, the “M10 Monument”so that “The Argentine people and citizens of the world can pay tribute to who was the greatest idol of Argentina”.
The March 2025 trial, highly anticipated in Argentina, focuses on the circumstances of Diego Maradona’s death and his possible negligence. He died at the age of 60 due to a cardiorespiratory crisis on November 25, 2020, alone in a medical bed in Tigre (north of Buenos Aires), where he was convalescing after neurosurgery for a hematoma on his head.
The Justice maintained the classification of “homicide with dolus eventualis”, a crime that is characterized when a person commits negligence, knowing that this could cause death. He is punishable by eight to twenty-five years in prison.
