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Montevideo, May 28th 2025 - 23:13 UTC

Tag: Diego Maradona

  • Wednesday, May 28th 2025 - 10:40 UTC

    Future of Maradona Case trial to be decided this week

    After Judge Makintach was removed from the case, the Court needs to decide on the future steps

    Deputies in the Buenos Aires Provincial Legislature unanimously agreed to request impeachment proceedings against Judge Julieta Makintach for her involvement in a documentary about the malpractice trial of Diego Maradona's medical team. The magistrate played a leading role in the film despite denying any wrongdoing.

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  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 19:05 UTC

    Maradona Case likely to end up in mistrial due to Judge's misdeeds

    A mistrial is most likely to be declared Tuesday given the unlawful behavior of Judge Makintach

    Prominent Argentine criminal lawyer Fernando Burlando announced he would be requesting the impeachment of San Isidro Judge Julieta Makintach, whose involvement in an unauthorized documentary reporting on the trial against former football legend Diego Maradona's medical team has left the proceedings on the brink of annulment.

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  • Tuesday, May 20th 2025 - 22:21 UTC

    Maradona Case: Trial adjourned amid bias allegations against one judge

    The prosecution argues that Maradona's death was not inevitable

    The proceedings trying former Argentine football legend Diego Maradona's medical team was adjourned Tuesday for seven days after it became known that one of the judges making up the court had allowed a documentary team to film the sessions without the consent of any of the parties involved, such as the defendants, the prosecution, or the witnesses.

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  • Wednesday, March 12th 2025 - 09:43 UTC

    Gruesome picture of Maradona's dead body shown on first day of trial

    The medical team is being held accountable for letting Maradona develop those lethal conditions instead of keeping him hospitalized

    A gruesome picture of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona with his torso visibly swollen was shown Tuesday as prosecutors intended to prove that the patient could have stood a better chance of survival had he remained hospitalized and not set up at a house he rented for what was going to be his recovery after brain surgery. This image caused an emotional reaction in the courtroom, particularly among Maradona’s daughters Dalma and Gianina, who were present. Verónica Ojeda, Maradona's ex-partner, also had an incident when she rebuked one of the accused doctors before the beginning of the hearings.

  • Monday, March 10th 2025 - 15:05 UTC

    Trial of Maradona's medical team starting this week

    About 100 witnesses are expected to be questioned throughout the proceedings

    Seven healthcare professionals treating Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona will stand trial for manslaughter and negligence resulting in death starting this week. The proceedings are expected to last four months. If convicted, each defendant faces between eight and 25 years in jail. One nurse will be tried separately, starting in July, since she chose a trial by jury.

  • Thursday, October 3rd 2024 - 10:15 UTC

    Argentine court allows Maradona's heirs to place the body at mausoleum in Buenos Aires

    Maradona would have turned 64 on Oct. 30

    An Argentine court in San Isidro, on the northern outskirts of Buenos Aires, has allowed the body of former footballing virtuoso Diego Maradona to be transferred from the private cemetery where he is buried to a mausoleum in the Puerto Madero district, inside the country's capital.

  • Saturday, November 4th 2023 - 11:00 UTC

    Maradona's medical team to be tried for manslaughter

    Maradona died at the age of 60 on Nov. 25, 2020.

    A Court of Appeals and Guarantees in the district of San Isidro in the province of Buenos Aires upheld this week a decision to try for manslaughter the healthcare team involved in the death of football legend Diego Armando Maradona, it was reported Friday in Buenos Aires.

  • Wednesday, April 19th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    How long might Maradona's reckless doctors spend in jail?

    Neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque might be convicted of “simple homicide with eventual malice”

    A Court of Appeals in San Isidro on the outskirts of Buenos Aires Tuesday ruled that neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and six other health care practitioners must stand trial for the death of football star Diego Armando Maradona.

  • Wednesday, November 16th 2022 - 22:16 UTC

    Hand-of-God ball sells for US$ 2.4 million

    It was also the ball Maradona used to score the Goal of the Century

    The ball Argentine football star Diego Maradona punched through English keeper Peter Shilton's fists to score the opening goal of the quarterfinal match the eventual champions went past during the Mexico 1986 World Cup sold Wednesday at auction for £2 million (US$2.4 million).

  • Monday, October 31st 2022 - 09:30 UTC

    Maradona world's biggest mural unveiled in Buenos Aires

    The painting is 45 meters high and 40 meters wide

    On the day football legend, Diego Maradona was to have turned 62, thousands gathered Sunday in the Constitución neighborhood in Buenos Aires to see a mural dedicated to him unveiled.

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