7 medicos go on trial for soccer star Maradona’s death

Seven Argentines went on trial Tuesday accused of homicide for their alleged role in what prosecutors called the “horror theater” of football legend Diego Maradona’s death four years ago.

- 

Maradona died on Nov.25, 2090, aged 60, while recovering at home from brain surgery for blood clot, after decades battling cocaine and alcohol addictions.

On trial are a neurosurgeon, a psychiatrist, psychologist, a medical coordinator, a nursing coordinator, a doctor and a night nurse accused of being criminally negligent in the care they provided to the footballer in his final days.

In an opening statement, the prosecution said it intended to submit “solid” evidence that no member of the medical team “did what they were supposed to do” in the “horror theater” that was Maradona’s deathbed.