Prosecutors investigating the 2020 death of Argentine soccer memoir Diego Maradona maintain requested that the scientific workers who treated him be tried for negligent kill.

In their ask Wednesday, the prosecutors acknowledged “omissions” and mismanagement by eight scientific examiners accountable of Maradona positioned him in a “situation of helplessness” and abandoned him “to his destiny” at some level of his dwelling hospitalization, in step with the court docket submitting cited by the legit Telam recordsdata agency.

Maradona died at age 50 in 2020 while convalescing from mind surgery for a blood clot, and after a long time of battles with cocaine and alcohol addictions.

Neurosurgeon and household physician Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov are below investigation over his death as the main of us accountable for the wisely being of the used soccer extensive title.

Six others, alongside with psychologist Carlos Diaz and scientific coordinator Nancy Forlini, are also accused.

The prosecution accuses them of “easy kill with dolus eventualis” an offense wherein a person is negligent while bright their negligence can motive any individual’s death.

They would possibly possibly well well face sentences starting from eight to 25 years in jail.

Essentially based on the prosecutors, the defendants “were the protagonists of an unparalleled, entirely wretched and reckless hospitalization at dwelling”, and allegedly committed a “series of improvisations, mismanagement and shortcomings”.

The protection have to now show veil its arguments and would possibly possibly well well request of for the case to be brushed off.

Maradona is widely regarded as one in every of one of the most attention-grabbing footballers in historic previous and led Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup.