“I want him dead”: they threaten a funeral director who took a selfie with Maradona’s body

In the snapshot, the employee is seen placing one hand on the former football player’s head and raising his thumb with the other.

A selfie of a funerary next to Diego Armando Maradona’s lifeless body went viral on social media, causing a wave of indignation and threats against the author of the image.

In the snapshot, the employee of the Pinier funeral home, hired to offer funeral services to the football star, is seen posing next to Maradona’s coffin with one hand resting on the former football player’s head and raising your thumb with the other.

According to Argentine media, the worker was fired from his company for an act that many saw as a serious desecration of the body of the idol, who died on November 25 at the age of 60.

Several angry fans are said to have launched online threats against the man. “I want this fat, bald man who took a picture with Diego’s dead body. I want him dead. DEAD“wrote one of the users, collects Daily Mail. Meanwhile, another Internet user claimed to deprive him of his Argentine citizenship for what he called a” total disrespect “.

For his part, Maradona’s lawyer, Matías Morla, warned in a tweet that he personally “found the rascal” who took the photograph. After, reported that the author of the controversial image has already been identified. “For the memory of my friend, I will not rest until I have paid for such an aberration,” he said.

• According to the preliminary results of the autopsy performed on Wednesday, a few hours after his death, Maradona died of a “acute heart failure in a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy “. He was recovering from a head operation at his home in the Villa Nueva neighborhood in the Buenos Aires city of Tigre.

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