Diego Maradona was found guilty of negligence by medical staff, it was reported on Tuesday, as the trial of seven people accused of causing his death began. Prosecutor Patricio Ferrari told a Buenos Aires court it

was “reckless” for the football legend to seek medical treatment at his home outside Buenos Aires after being discharged from hospital. Ferrari also

said the seven defendants, who face up to 25 years in prison if convicted, เล่นเกมคาสิโน UFABET ทันสมัย ฝากถอนง่าย did not care about the consequences.

During his opening statement at the start of the trial, Ferrari held up a photo of Maradona lying on his back in a bed with his swollen stomach peeking through a black T-shirt in the packed courtroom, saying: “He died in these ways.”

More than 100 witnesses are due to testify over the next five months in a trial into the care Maradona received when he died of heart failure on November 25, 2020, at his home in Tigre. Maradona

agreed to a brief stay after being released from hospital following surgery for a blood clot on his brain, which will be a key part of the trial.

The seven defendants are neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque; Agustina Kozakov, Maradona’s personal doctor and physiotherapist; and five other health professionals who worked with the footballer in his final days.

Maradona’s family, including his two ex-lovers and all of his children, are also present at the hearing

. “The right to the truth is a human right and, at present, Diego Armando Maradona, his children, his relatives, those close to him And the Argentine people deserve justice,”

he said. Prosecutors have received important supporting evidence from text messages from phones seized during the search of the property and from witness statements, including the testimonies of several medical experts.

“We will show that between November 11 and 25, 2020, Diego Armando Maradona was taken to house number 45 in the San Barrio neighborhood of San Benavides in Tigre, where it is clear that the victim was not fully conscious and could not make decisions about his health,” he added.

“He went to that place for medical rehabilitation and home care, which we can say without a doubt was his downfall,”

he said of the defendants as “a group of people who had formed themselves,” adding that “they neglected all their duties, they all cooperated in determining the factors or circumstances that increased the risk of Diego Armando Maradona dying. Their actions, we can say, were completely out of the ordinary.”

“You will see during this trial that the care in this house was very reckless, very flawed, very unplanned and completely unmanaged. In the period that ended with Diego’s death, in this house of horrors where Diego Maradona died, no one else did what they did,” he said.

Before the trial began, Veronica Ojeda, one of “the little tiger’s” ex-lovers, began abusing Agustina Kozakov with profanity, as television cameras recorded her shouting “you son of a bitch” from a distance before police arrived to separate them.

The criminal investigation was launched shortly after Maradona was found dead. The case was initially categorised as a simple death, but was later changed to a homicide case after a medical examiner’s board received a shocking report that Maradona’s care team had treated him “inadequately, recklessly and negligently”.

If found guilty of the charges, The seven defendants will face between eight and 25 years in prison under Argentine law for medical malfeasance.

The other defendants, in addition to Luque and Kosachov, are nurses Ricardo Almiron, Nancy Forlini, and Mariano Peroni, psychologist Carlos Diaz, and doctor Pedro Di Spagno. An

eighth defendant, nurse Gisella Dahiana Madrid, will be tried separately later this year.