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Argentina Opens Retrial Over Diego Maradona’s Death After Trial Collapse
The new trial will hear about 120 witnesses as prosecutors again argue Maradona’s medical team was grossly negligent, while the defence cites his health history.
- On Tuesday, a new trial over the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona begins, resuming legal proceedings after the first attempt collapsed due to a scandal involving a judge.
- Judge Julieta Makintach faced impeachment after the initial trial was annulled in May 2025, when ethical rules were potentially broken by her participation in a documentary about the case.
- Seven medical professionals, including doctors and nurses, face homicide charges with possible intent; prosecutors describe their care in Tigre as grossly negligent, with potential prison terms of eight to 25 years if convicted.
- The new trial will hear from 120 witnesses to determine liability, while Vadim Mischanchuk, lawyer for psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, told Radio Con Vos on Sunday that maintaining criminal intent claims is cruel to the accused.
- Maradona, the 1986 World Cup champion, died in November 2020 at age 60 following brain surgery, and while the defense maintains he died of natural causes, proceedings are expected to last until July.
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“As Maradona drowned screaming in three liters of water, the silence was lethal and the criminal indifference had them all as accomplices.” With these words the initial allegation Patricio Ferrari, the prosecutor in charge of the case for the death of the former Argentine footballer Diego Armando Maradona in which seven members of his medical team are accused of simple homicide with eventual dolo. These words were heard for the second time, sinc…
After the annulment of the previous one due to a scandal involving one of the judges
New trial over death of soccer icon Maradona begins after first case ended in scandal. Here’s what to know
A new trial to determine who bears responsibility for the death of football icon Diego Maradona has started in Argentina under public scrutiny, nearly a year after the original case ended in a mistrial.
The trial against seven health professionals accused of negligence in the death of the great footballer Diego Maradona resumed on Tuesday, almost a year after the original trial was suspended when a presiding judge resigned after appearing in a documentary on the case. The case of negligence focuses on seven medical professionals accused of not providing adequate care in the weeks prior to Maradona’s death five years ago in a house outside Bueno…
New Trial Begins for Diego Maradona's Death After Scandal Overturned the First Trial · Global Voices
A court opened a new debate against seven health professionals, almost a year after the initial trial was overturned for misconduct by a judge
"To reach the penalty room and not to score a goal is like dancing with your sister." Diego Maradona was not only a football legend, but also a philosopher. His death five and a half years ago still raises questions that a new trial with 90 (!) witnesses is supposed to clarify.
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