Veronica Ojeda, former partner of Diego Maradonasaid that his entourage “He kept hostage” the sample months before its end, in the trial against Seven healthcare professionals For the death of the Football Star in Argentina in 2020.
Maradona died because of a lung edema caused by heart failure on November 25 during a hospitalization after a neurosurgery intervention. Doctors, nurses, psychiatrist and psychologist they are accused of voluntary murderwhich means that they were aware that their actions could have caused their death. An eighth accused – an nurse – will be tried in a separate judgment.
Veronica Ojeda, former partner Diego Armando Maradona (AP)
Ojeda, I knew they kept him hostage
“I knew he was held hostage, I was afraid of everythingIndeed Every time I went out he told me to take him away“, said Ojeda, mother of Maradona’s younger son, Diego Fernando, 12 years old, referring to the visits made to the ex -partner in 2020, before it was hospitalized in November for a neurochirurgy intervention.
Ojeda, partner of the former footballer between 2005 and 2014, testified to the process that is taking place at San Isidroin a northern suburb of Buenos Aires near the city of Tiger, where Diego died.
The entourage in the sights, they lied to the family
In his testimony, broken by tears, targeted Maradona’s entourage, including his assistants Massimiliano Pomargo and Vanesa Morla. He also referred to Maradona’s family doctor, Luciano Luqueand his psychiatrist, Agustina Cosachov: “They lied
shamelessly to the whole family “. According to Ojeda, the doctors”They had claimed that it was convenient to put it in a house and that there would be everything as if it were a hospital“.
During the trial, started on March 11, several witnesses said that in the house where El Diez died There were no medical equipment. Ojeda said she saw Maradona last time two days before and not having found it well.
