Diego Maradona’s ex-bodyguard arrested for allegedly lying in his testimony | Football News
Diego Maradona’s ex-bodyguard Julio César Coria was arrested for allegedly lying and withholding information in the trial of the medical team that was in charge of the mercurial Argentine footballer’s health. Seven healthcare professionals are on trial in an Argentina court and the accusation leveled against them has been negligence in Maradona’s death in a house near Buenos Aires on November 25, 2020.
Following a request the prosecutor’s office, a criminal court in San Idisdro, a suburb of Buenos Aires ordered Coria to be produced in front of them for false testimony. He was arrested on Tuesday afternoon. The bodyguard was one of the people at the scene who had tried to resuscitate Maradona.
Coria had earlier testified in court that nurse Gisela Madrid and psychiatr Agustina Cosachov were present treating Maradona when he arrived into the room. He then said that Cosachov gate ‘mouth-to-mouth resuscitation’ to Maradona.
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The prosecutor said that Coria had lied in his testimony when he said he didn’t keep any contact with another one of the other defendants in the case, a neurosurgeon the name of Leopoldo Luque, who had performed a surgery to remove a blood clot from Maradona’s brain. But later texts between the two were revealed, showing that Coria had lied in his earlier testimony.
“There are countless chats between Luque and Coria, which demonstrate a cordial and almost friendly relationship, and the witness denied having had any conversation,” Ferrari said.
Maradona’s daughter had earlier said that Luque and Coria had suggested home hospitalisation for her father, while clinic authorities had suggested keeping the World Cup winner in the hospital itself.
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