Diego Maradona: eight to go on trial in Argentina for homicide

Defendants named in the judge’s report include the football star’s three doctors, a psychiatrist and two nurses

TRIAL: Eight people are to go on trial in Argentina for homicide. Photo: Diego Maradona mural in Dublin - Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie 

Eight people who took care of the Argentinian football superstar Diego Maradona will be tried for homicide, according to a ruling released on Wednesday following an investigation into his death from cardiac arrest.

In the 236-page document seen by Reuters, the judge in charge of the case questioned “the behaviours – active or by omission – of each of the accused which led to and contributed to the realisation of the harmful result”.