Maradona’s doctor is released from prison

Leopoldo Luque is in the crosshairs of the investigation which seeks to ascertain whether there was any kind of negligence regarding the death of the former footballer and both his home and his medical office have been searched (searched).

Argentine justice upheld the request that neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, who was treating Diego Armando Maradona, raised to avoid a possible arrest in the lawsuit investigating the star’s death on November 25, news sources announced on Friday 4-D a Efe the prosecutor’s office in charge of the case.

Luque is in the crosshairs of the investigation which seeks to determine if there was any kind of negligence surrounding the death of the former footballer and both his home and his medical office have been ransacked (searched) to collect material enabling progress. that an unjust death or abandonment in person could have been given.

The apartment and office of Agustina Cosachov, a psychiatrist who treated Maradona, were also searched, although neither of the two doctors has been formally charged for now.

Luque’s defense had submitted to the judge a request for exemption from prison for his client, which was later expanded with a document circulated in the local media in which the doctor insisted that “Maradona has decided for himself and has constantly broken contracts. tacit with their professionals “.

On the morning of last Monday, Luque, who on November 3 had operated the former footballer for a brain hematoma, an operation that according to the doctor was successful, decided to go to the Prosecutor’s Office, in the municipality of San Isidro in Buenos Aires, to find his situation. .

Luque did not take a statement as he was not formally charged.

At the time of admission to the hospital in Maradona, Luque was primarily responsible for transmitting medical reports to the press and in the media he was presented as his family doctor, which was denied by the neurosurgeon himself and now, after death, he is the subject of dispute due to the alleged responsibility that he had to assume regarding his general state of health.

“If I am responsible for Diego for anything, it was to love him, to take care of him, to extend his life and improve it to the last. I am responsible for it. I did the impossible for it,” said Luque in tears last Sunday. .

Maradona, who for years had a long history of addictions and health problems, died on November 25 due to cardiorespiratory arrest in the house in the province of Buenos Aires where he was transferred on November 11 to recover from the surgery. and, according to investigations, he died alone in the room where he slept.

In recent days the debate has begun on whether “el ten” has been adequately cared for in the last days and hours of life and the conditions in which it was in the property have been questioned.

Mario Baudry, legal representative of Maradona’s youngest son, Diego Fernando, born in 2013 following his relationship with Verónica Ojeda, believed Maradona’s death “was avoidable”.

“We will ask that all those who have participated in Diego’s treatment be thoroughly investigated and the final consequences in the event that there is an abandonment in person”, the lawyer said last Monday at the doors of the Prosecutor’s Office.