The new trial over Diego Maradona’s death: Homicide, negligence, or an inevitable outcome?

The resemblance is reminiscent of televised replays of Diego Maradona’s feats, when viewers tried to make sense of the feat they had just witnessed, now free from the dizziness and excitement that cloud the moment, the fleeting present. A public trial, which began last Tuesday, is attempting to determine whether Maradona, the Argentine football idol, died as a result of the neglect and abandonment he suffered at the hands of the healthcare professionals who were supposed to be caring for him on November 25, 2020. The new trial seems like a carbon copy of the proceedings that began a year earlier, also in the courts of San Isidro, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. The accused and the accusers, the victim and the crime, are the same. But that’s where the similarities end. The narrative of those involved is different.

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