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Seven members of the medical team that treated Argentine football great Diego Maradona before his death go on trial for homicide on Tuesday in Buenos Aires.
The case revolves around allegations that negligence by the healthcare professionals contributed to the World Cup winner’s death in 2020 at the age of 60.
Maradona suffered a heart attack while recovering from surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain weeks earlier. He had previously struggled with drug addiction, obesity and alcoholism, and reportedly came close to death in 2000 and 2004. But prosecutors concluded that his death could have been avoided.
Seven of the eight medical professionals who have been charged in the case, including Maradona’s brain surgeon, psychiatrist and nurses, are now standing trial for culpable homicide, a crime roughly commensurate with involuntary manslaughter.
They deny wrongdoing but could face 25 years in prison. A three-judge court will convene in the leafy Buenos Aires suburb of San Isidro to hear arguments about the case on Tuesday.
