The magistrate of the Argentina trial around the circumstances of the death of Maradona, challenged for having participated in an unauthorized documentary, resigned, his lawyer reported on Tuesday 24 June. In a letter addressed to the authorities of the province of Buenos Aires by his lawyer, to which the agency France-Presse (AFP) had access, judge Julieta Makintach affirms “Regret” THE “Deep institutional and social impact” of his mistakes, in a “Very sensitive trial”.
The judge says herself “Aware (…) damage that the extension of the current situation ”either its maintenance, “Could cause public confidence in the judiciary”. She considers that her “Better contribution to the restitution of the prestige of the institution and to the repair of the errors made” is to resign.
At the end of May, after two and a half months of hearing and after some forty witnesses heard, the trial on the circumstances of death, in November 2020, of Diego Maradona had been declared zero, after the challenge of Julieta Makintach, one of the three judges. His position had become untenable after the revelation of his collaboration in the preparation of a documentary mini-series whose trailer promised “Death, an idol, a judge, a trial”.
A new trio of judges was appointed last week to resume the trial on a date that has not yet been arrested. Seven health professionals – doctors, psychiatrists, psychologist, nurses – will be tried again for negligence that potentially resulted in Maradona’s death.
The idol of Argentinian football died at 60, on November 25, 2020, from a cardiorepiratory crisis coupled with pulmonary edema, after hours of agony, according to the accusation, two weeks after neurosurgical intervention.
