One of the daughters of Diego Maradona on Tuesday testified that her father’s father could not explain to her what type of treatment was big, and blamed the doctor for recommendations that her father be moved to home care before 2020.
Leopoldo Luque, a neurosurgeon who was a primary care of a Maradon doctor, is one of the seven medical experts in court proceedings accused of negligence at the death of Maradona.
Maradona had an operation for hematoma, which was formed between his skull and the brain and remained in intensive care at the Los Olivos clinic between the 4th-11. November 2020. Then he was sent to recover in a private house where Died two weeks later at the age of 60.
Gianinna Maradon told the court that her father’s health was really getting worse a month before his death and that Luque had made this observation on several occasions.
The deficiencies in the home care of the Maradons are one of the key evidence of prosecution. The cardiologist testified that he was against the transfer of Maradona from the Olivos Clinic.
Three judges decide whether they are accused of killing. The maximum imprisonment is 25 years.
“I said Luque that my dad looked very lost, that he wasn’t happy and he couldn’t walk. He told me there were rise and falls on his days,” said daughter “El diez.”
Giannina remembered the 60th birthday of Maradona and said that when she visited him at home, “he looked at us, but I didn’t understand him. I asked him if he felt good and said no he felt bad.”
The witness stated that every time she asked the doctor to explain why her father “worse and deteriorated, he couldn’t tell me with certainty what treatment would undergo”.
She said that Luque, along with psychiatrist Agustina Agustina and psychologist Carlos Daz, two other defendants, proposed domestic imprisonment for the Maradon, and eventually trusted this decision, although she originally disagreed.
“I decided to believe that they who watched my father’s health gave us the best proposal. Looking back, I feel it was all to keep my father in a dark, ugly and lonely place,” Marradon’s daughter said.
Clinic Medical Director Pablo Dimitroff showed that after surgery, Maradona had a “complex episode of the psychomotor excitative episode” that resembled alcohol selection.
Dimitroff also advised a domestic imprisonment, but Luque eventually informed him of the decision to move the Maradon from the clinic.
Published:
Sabyasachi Chowdhury
Published on:
May 14, 2025
