Dimitroff was the first of the witnesses to testify this Tuesday during a new hearing of the trial for Maradona’s death in the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) No. 3 of San Isidro, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in which seven health workers are charged with simple homicide with eventual intent for the death of the former soccer player.
The doctor is the director of the Olivos Clinic, an institution in which Maradona underwent a surgical intervention by a subdural bruising in the head and where he remained admitted until November 11, 2020, date on which he was transferred to a private residence in the Tigre neighborhood, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where he died two weeks later, on November 25.
“His behaviors were self -injurious, he did not eat, he took things that did not do well, he did not get out of bed, he was awake at night and slept during the day, he did not meet the medication taking,” Dimitroff said during his statement.
“It seemed to us that the address was not the right place for the continuity of the treatment that had begun in Olivos Clinic with the drain of the bruise,” he added, in reference to the controversial decision that the star continued his treatment in a house after leaving the clinic.
In that sense, the witness said that moving Maradona from the Olivos Clinic to another institution that would take care of its motor rehabilitation, its addiction problems and its symptoms of abstinence “was the only adequate exit to ensure that the patient could carry out a good recovery.”
-Dimitroff took care of the doctors of the idol, Leopoldo Luque and Agustina Cosachov, charged in this cause, who “was a complicated patient to take it again to the home.”
According to the witness, his concern “was accepted and raised as a concern of the family and treating medical body”, who in turn admitted that it was very difficult for them to “drive it in the house.”
In addition to Luque, Maradona’s header until his death, and the psychiatrist Cosachov, are judged in this process by psychologist Carlos Díaz, the doctor and coordinator of the company Swiss Medical Nancy Forlini, the doctor Pedro Di Spagna, the nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni and the nurse Ricardo Almirón.
Nurse Gisela Madrid is also prosecuted but will face a jury trial, as requested.
In this process, Judges Maximiliano Savarino, Verónica Di Tommaso and Julieta Makintach must determine if seven of the eight defendants are guilty of the crime of simple homicide with eventual intent, which has a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.
