An Argentine prosecutor began hearing evidence on a case involving seven people on Monday The death of football superstar Diego Maradona.

Maradona’s night caretaker, 37-year-old Ricardo Almiron, arrived at the outskirts of the capital, Buenos Aires, at noon (15:00 GMT) with his lawyer The Office of the Prosecutor of San Isidro.

After an expert committee investigating the cause of Maradona’s death found that he had not received adequate care and was abandoned in a “long period of suffering,” Almiron was one of seven people under investigation for manslaughter.

The seven people interrogated were members of the Maradona medical team.

A medical review team of 20 doctors stated in May that the defendant’s behavior was “Inappropriate, flawed and reckless way“And claimed with “criminal purposes” that Maradona was not properly monitored before his death.

Maradona, the respected former Boca youth team and Naples star, has been drinking and taking drugs for many years. He died of heart failure on November 25 last year after undergoing brain surgery earlier that month.

Almiron claimed that the World Cup champion captain was suspected of lying when he was sleeping and breathing normally hours before his death. Autopsy revealed Maradona was dying at the time, but did not drink alcohol or take illegal drugs a few days before his death.

After the interview, Chiarelli told reporters that Almiron “always regarded Maradona as a patient suffering from a complex mental illness”, but was never informed of “heart-related problems”.

“His supervisor told him not to disturb the patient. My client has the wisdom to perform his tasks without making the patient feel violated. This is something he has to deal with the entire time he is there,” Chiarelli added.

This Investigation opened After two of Maradona’s five children filed a complaint with neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, they blamed his father for his worsening condition after surgery.

In the next few days, Maradona’s psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov (Agustina Cosachov) will ask questions in the next few days; Psychologist Carlos Diaz, 29 years old; Nurse Dahiana Madrid, 36 years old; Mariano Perroni, a 40-year-old care coordinator, and Nancy Forlini, a 52-year-old medical coordinator.

The hearing was postponed from last month because Coronavirus cases surge In Argentina, it will end on June 28th with the 39-year-old neurosurgeon Luque.

On November 26, 2020, people lined up along Avenida de Mayo to the Rosada Presidential Palace to pay tribute to the football legend Diego Maradona in Buenos Aires [File: Juan Mabromata/AFP]

The defendant is prohibited from leaving Argentina, and the judge will decide whether the case should go to trial. This process may take months or years. If found guilty, all seven people could face imprisonment from 8 to 25 years.

According to the Agence France-Presse report, Luke has repeatedly defended his actions, saying that he has “done his best” to treat Maradona.

The death of Maradona, World-renowned football star As he led the national team to win the World Cup for the second time in 1986, he was particularly popular in his hometown of Argentina, and he destroyed the South American country.

For three days of national mourning last year, tens of thousands of people lined up for his coffin at the Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires, with the Argentine flag hung on it.

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players in the world.One Argentine wrote When Maradona died, “God was with God.”

The day after his death, Argentine mourner Wilson Cisnero told Al Jazeera that “Argentina is Maradona”.

But his fame is not limited to Argentina. Maradona played for Barcelona and Italian club Naples in the early 1980s, the latter winning the first Italian championship with the help of the Argentine.

Kerala, India Announced two days of official condolences For his superstar after death. Maradona was very much loved there, and the shrimp shells he had eaten during his visit in 2012 were freeze-dried and mounted.

Ravindran Veleimbra, the owner of the hotel where Maradona stayed during his visit, recalled the day the football player entered the lobby. “Our God has walked in. He is right in front of us,” Villembra told AFP in November 2020.