The trial for the death of Diego Armando Maradona will continue this Thursday with the testimonial statements of a medical neighbor summoned before the physical decompensation of the idol and another who recorded his death, on November 25, 2020.

The trial that seeks to determine whether seven health professionals are guilty of simple homicide with eventual male continues in the Oral Criminal Court No. 3 of San Isidro, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, with the statement of doctors Colin Campbell Irigoyen and Juan Carlos Pinto.

Campbell Irigoyen is a surgeon, a resident of the closed San Andrés neighborhood, who was summoned by the local surveillance staff to assist Maradona with his physical decompensation and tried to resuscitate him.

In previous statements, the witness said that, upon arriving at the patient’s room, he was able to observe the nurse Gisela Madrid “doing CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) maneuvers to Diego Armando Maradona.”

Campbell Irigoyen also detailed that Maradona “was very cold, with stiffness in his mouth, no heartbeat and no pulse, sweaty, with pale skin color, cold sweating” and his arm “loose, loose”, despite which he continued with the nurse with the resuscitation maneuvers.

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He also mentioned one of the main defendants, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov: “I was next to the bed but I was doing nothing,” according to the court order.

Finally, he assured that the patient had, at the time of his death, pulmonary edema.

The other witness will be Juan Carlos Pinto, a doctor from the company specialized in medical emergencies +Vida, who checked Maradona and confirmed his death after arriving in an ambulance with medical equipment.

During the stage of accumulation of tests, Pinto stated that he had applied resuscitation maneuvers to the patient as “electrical activity with the defibrillator” (which he carried) and adrenaline injections, for 45 minutes, without positive results.

In his previous statements he said that he was able to verify “cadaveric livides”, which, according to his explanation, occur after “approximately an hour of death”. He said that he was also able to verify the onset of stiffness in the patient’s lower jaw.”

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During the stage of accumulation of evidence, the witness confirmed that, when entering the room, he found the neighbor and the nurse performing resuscitation tasks and, immediately, immediately developed “electrical activity with the defibrillator,” although the patient was “without electrical activity”, with the heart “basically stopped.”

Last Tuesday, four police officers who entered the house on November 25, 2020, testified before the Court and emphasized the abdominal swelling that Maradona presented, as well as the lack of medical elements such as serum and defibrillator.

Keep in mind that the defibrillator used arrived with the doctor of the company +Vida.

Judges Maximiliano Savarino, Verónica Di Tommaso and Julieta Makintach must determine whether seven of the eight defendants are guilty of the crime of simple homicide with eventual malice, which has a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.

The judges in this process: neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, psychoanalyst Carlos Díaz, doctor and coordinator of the Swiss Medical company, Nancy Forlini, doctor Pedro Di Spagna, nurse coordinator Mariano Perroni and nurse Ricardo Almirón.

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Nurse Gisela Madrid is also being prosecuted, who requested a jury trial and will be tried in a process that will begin during the second half of this year, once the main debate is over.