taken on November 09, 2001 Argentinian football star Diego Maradona
greets the public in the “La Bombonera” stadium of Boca Juniors
Athletic club in Buenos Aires. AFP
Argentine prosecutors were investigating Friday the
circumstances surrounding the death of Diego Maradona and
whether it could have involved medical negligence, judicial sources
said.
“There are already irregularities,” a close family member told
AFP.
Maradona’s lawyer, Matias Morla, had earlier called for an
investigation into claims that ambulances took more than half an
hour to reach the football star’s house in response to an emergency
call on the day of his death.
A preliminary autopsy report established
that Maradona died in his sleep at noon on Wednesday of
“acute lung edema and chronic heart failure.”
The prosecutor’s office in Buenos Aires has opened a file
entitled “Maradona, Diego. Determination of the cause of
death.”
“The case was initiated because he is a person who died at home
and no one signed his death certificate. It does not mean there are
suspicions or irregularities,” a judicial source said, requesting
to remain anonymous.
The 60-year-old Argentine football legend was receiving
round-the-clock medical care at a house in a gated community in
Tigre, north of Buenos Aires, where he was recuperating from
surgery to remove a clot on his brain in early November.
“You have to see if they did what they were supposed to do or if
they relaxed,” the family member told AFP.
“The nurse made a statement when the prosecutor appeared on the
day of Diego’s death, then expanded her statement and finally went
on television to say that what she said was forced on her, so there
is some contradiction in her statement,” the close relative
said.
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The prosecutor’s office is awaiting the results of toxicological
tests on Maradona’s body.
The three prosecutors working on the case have requested the
star’s medical records, as well as recordings from neighborhood
security cameras.
Another nurse caring for Maradona was likely the last
person to see the star alive, at dawn on Wednesday, prosecutors
said in a statement on Friday.
“From his words, it could be established that he was the last
person to see (Maradona) alive at approximately 6:30 in the
morning,” as the night shift at the star’s house was ending, it
said.
The nurse, interviewed by prosecutors on Thursday, “referred to
having found him resting in his bed, assuring that he was sleeping
and breathing normally.”
Maradona’s nephew Johnny Herrera was previously believed to have
been the last person to see Maradona, at 11:30 pm on
Tuesday.
Prosecutors said the nurse present in his house at the time of
death told them that she had heard Maradona “moving around
inside the room” at 7:30 am.
They said that at 12:17 pm, “Maradona’s personal secretary
requested medical assistance, and an ambulance from the company
+VIDA was present at 12:28 pm, according to film records from the
San Andres neighborhood obtained by the prosecutor’s office.”
Several ambulances from other medical service providers arrived
later.
Investigators have also established that Maradona’s
personal doctor, Leopoldo Luque, had already made a 911 call at
12:16 pm, requesting an ambulance.
AFP
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