On November 25, 2020, Diego Maradona died at his home outside Argentina's capital, 60 years old. Then, two weeks had passed since he was discharged from the intensive care unit Olivos following an operation for a blood clot in the brain. Maradona's family believes that the football icon could have survived if he had received proper care.
Seven people, including doctors and other healthcare personnel, are on trial for causing another person's death and risk up to 25 years in prison. The trial has been ongoing for four months and over 100 people are to testify.
Alcohol Withdrawal
On Tuesday night, local time, the police conducted a raid on the Olivos clinic that lasted for four hours.
According to a police report, Argentine authorities seized Maradona's journals, 275 pages of archived material, and 547 emails sent between the defendants.
The raid came after Pablo Dimitroff, medical chief at Olivos, testified on Tuesday. He said, among other things, that after the operation, Maradona suffered from complicated psychomotor symptoms similar to those of alcohol withdrawal and demanded to get alcohol.
"Ripped out IV lines"
We took care of an aggressive patient who ripped out his own IV lines. He was a very difficult patient to handle, said Dimitroff, among other things.
Diego Maradona won both the World Championship 1986 and Serie A 1989–90 and previously the Uefa Cup 1988–89 with Napoli during his active career. He was also known for the hand "God's hand" in the World Championship and had problems with substance abuse. After his career, he was a coach and also the national team coach for Argentina's national team.
