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Diego Maradona medics go on trial accused of criminal negligence

Diego Maradona in a baseball cap and a sweater with the initials DM
Diego Maradona in 2020, the year he died of what was found to be a heart attack. Photograph: Alejandro Pagni/AFP/Getty Images

An Argentinian neurosurgeon and six other medical professionals have gone on trial in Buenos Aires over the death of the legendary footballer Diego Maradona.

Ardent admirers of the World Cup-winning star, who died in November 2020 aged 60, gathered outside the courtroom to demand punishment for the people they blame for Maradona’s premature death.

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