Maradona’s death: Luque, Cosachov and six other people who witnessed the Ten were accused of “simple murder with possible intent”

The judge of San Isidro raised this Wednesday at the oral test the cause of the death of Diego Armando Maradona, which occurred on 25 November 2020 in a house in a country house in the Tigre area while he was recovering from an operation for a subdural hematoma of the head. And the eight health workers involved have been charged “simple murder with possible intent”.

The judge of Guarantees 2 of San Isidro, Orlando Diaz Diazordered the draw of the case so that an oral court of district judges for the death of the world football star the neurosurgeon and family doctor of the Ten, Leopoldo Luciano Luque (40), and the psychiatrist Augustine Cosachov (36).

Psychologist Carlos Ángel “Charly” Díaz (30) was also accused; the doctor coordinator of the prepaid Swiss Medical, Nancy Edith Forlini (53); the nursing coordinator Mariano Ariel Perroni (41), the nurses Ricardo Omar Almirón (38) and Dahiana Gisela Madrid (37); and the clinician Pedro Pablo Di Spagna (49).

Initially, the health personnel involved were in charge “manslaughter”. However, listening to a complaint from Maradona’s family, the judge decided to raise the bar and accuse the people involved in the figure of simple murder with possible intent.

The figure applies when, for Justice, a person must have represented that, by performing a certain act, he could cause the death of someone and, while foreseeing that possible result, he continued with his actions and did nothing to avoid it. It is a crime that carries a penalty of between 8 and 25 years of imprisonment. and for which the accused could be arrested.

Luque and Cosachov had been the two most complicated defendants according to the findings of the Medical Board, whose relationship influenced the magistrate’s decision to frame the crime under this figure.

The interdisciplinary team felt that Maradona was a complex patient with multiple pathologies and that he “was not fully utilizing his mental faculties” when he was discharged from his last hospitalization.

Maradona died at the age of 60 on November 25, 2020, and an autopsy on the body of the former Argentina captain and former coach determined that he died of “acute pulmonary edema secondary to exacerbated chronic heart failure”.

A “dilated cardiomyopathy” was also discovered in his heart.

The 1986 world champion in Mexico suffered from alcohol addiction problems, was admitted to a clinic in La Plata on November 2, 2020 due to anemia and dehydration, and the next day was transferred to a sanatorium in the city of Olivos in Buenos Aires. Aires, where he was operated on for a subdural hematoma, was discharged from hospital on 11 November and moved to a home in a private neighborhood in the Tigre, where he died two weeks later.

The judge’s decision came precisely on the 36th anniversary of Maradona’s goal against the English, considered the best in the history of the World Cup.

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Definitions of the medical advice

The definitions of the medical commission pointed against the role played by Luque, Cosachov and also Perroni, head nurse.

The investigation was coordinated by prosecutors Patricio Ferrari, Cosme Iribarren and Laura Capra, who are involved in the cause of Maradona’s death.

As noted in the 70-page document, “the patient’s life-threatening signs were ignored” prior to his death on November 25 last year.

As for nursing care, they warned that “it is full of inefficiencies and irregularities”.

“Diego Armando Maradona did not present correct checks and assistance on the part of medical-assistance, nursing and therapeutic comrades, neither in time nor in form. As dictated by the rules of good practice ”, they condemned.

Furthermore, they indicated that “it cannot be excluded” that the drugs he received for his addictions “had an influence on the fatal outcome”.

Who’s Who

Leopoldo Luciano Luque, neurosurgeon.

The investigation shows that he coordinated Diego’s home hospitalization, which had significant shortcomings. It was he who operated on Maradona on November 3 at the Olivos Clinic, in Vicente López, for the subdural hematoma that “Diez” was detected on the same day in a clinic in La Plata.

In social media he recognized himself responsible for his health, even if he denied it in court. He signed the expulsion of Maradona on 11 November. It was also complicated by a series of audios and messages, in which failures in patient care due to her access to alcohol, pills and even marijuana in the months leading up to his death are evident.

In a letter, his lawyer Julio Rivas pointed out: “Our assisted person has never endangered the life or health of his friend and patient”, “his own daughters and prepaid medicines have entrusted him with a doctor to his revision “,” no one could imagine or imagine that his heart suddenly failed “,” Diego Maradona decided for himself “and” Maradona was never abandoned by Leopoldo Luque “.

Agustina Cosachov, psychiatrist.

Together with Luque, it was they who periodically reported to the family the news of the star’s state of health. They also accuse her of “ideological falsehood” for having ascertained in a certificate and in a medical record that Maradona, in October 2020, was in good mental health, without going to visit him in the village Campos de Roca II, in Brandsen, where the DT was alive.

Carlos Daniel “Charly” Diaz, psychologist

According to judicial sources, “from the analysis of instant messaging it appears that it played a preponderant role in the decisions that have been taken at a medical level” towards Maradona.

In the WhatsApp messages exchanged with Luque and Cosachov between 24 and 26 October, a month before Maradona’s death, they defined that the pathology that plagued “Ten” was “alcoholic dementia” with “Parkinson’s traits”. They also speak of the “confused, lost, stiff” patient.

Dahiana Gisela Madrid, nurse on the morning-afternoon shift.

Graduated as a nurse at the Argentine Red Cross, with more than ten years of experience and a past at Ford Argentina as an occupational nurse, she was in the fifth of Tigre during the last hours of Maradona.

He admitted in front of the prosecutors that he had written, at the request of his boss Mariano Perroni, a false complaint for the Medidom company, stating that at six in the morning on November 25th he had tried to check the patient and that he had denied it.

Ricardo Omar Almirón, night shift nurse.

He was the last of the team of healthcare professionals who witnessed him see him alive. He was part, together with the other nurses and Forlini, in the WhatsApp chat called “Tigre”, where they reported all the news about Maradona and some shortcomings of the hospitalization were highlighted.

Nancy Edith Forlini, doctor.

He was the doctor who coordinated for Swiss Medical everything related to Maradona’s hospitalization in the San Andrés country house. Perroni called her “the group’s chief physician” and her “hierarchical superior”.

Mariano Ariel Perroni, head nurse.

In his testimony (before being denounced), he presented himself as the “administrative coordinator of the nursing group” who attended Maradona “and” employee “of the company” Medidom “, in which the prepaid Swiss Medical had outsourced Diego’s home care. , explaining that his duties were to “manage attendance, request shift change reports and all matters relating to the administrative organization of personnel”.

Pedro Di Spagna, doctor

He had been hired to monitor Maradona at Tigre’s home by Medidom, the outsourcing company to which prepaid Swiss Medical had delegated the care of the Ten in his home hospitalization.

In the opinion, the prosecutors argued that “in particular, in his capacity as a clinical doctor in charge of monitoring the patient’s care during home hospitalization, he did not fulfill the duties of his responsibility because he abstained – like the rest of the subjects involved – regularly monitor the patient’s state of health “.

Source: Telam