According to the defendants’ attorneys, Diego Maradona’s medical team’s murder trial has been declared a mistrial in a case that shocked Argentina after his 2020 death, according to lawyers for the defendants.
The new trial’s date was not initially announced on Thursday, and no new judges had been chosen. Judge Julieta Makintach, one of the three judges in the case, resigned on Tuesday amid accusations of ethical breach.
Maradona, who almost won the 1986 World Cup for the Argentine team by almost one-time, lost to heart failure while recovering from brain and skull surgery. He was 60.
His death shook the country and caused intense mourning all over the world, particularly in Naples, Italy, where he had led Napoli’s scorned team to acclaim both domestically and internationally.
Maradona, who was regarded as one of the greatest and most recognizable players to ever grace a football field, endured a long-term drug addiction and had connections to the Naples underworld during that time.
His 1986 World Cup heroics have since become a sporting legend. The controversy surrounding his controversial first goal in a quarterfinal was dubbed the “Hand of God,” as it resulted in an Argentinian victory over England, a rival nation that had only recently wagered a war over the Falklands Islands, also known as the Islas Malvinas in Spanish.
However, Maradona’s second goal was incredible, seeing him swing past several England rivals from his own half to score the decisive second.
Maradona was named one of Brazil’s Pele among the two “Players of the Century” in 2000 by the football governing body Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).
In a trial that started on March 11th, his medical team’s seven members were accused of homicide without cause. The defendants have refuted the allegations that Maradona’s treatment was “simple homicide with eventual intent.” Between eight and twenty years in prison were they facing.
Source: Aljazeera
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