Diego Maradona’s daughter Gianinna on Tuesday slammed what she called the “total manipulation’ of the late player’s family by his doctors in the lead-up to his 2020 death.
She was testifying at the trial of Maradona’s seven-person medical team, which is accused of gross negligence over the death of the Argentine football legend at the age of 60.
“The manipulation was total and horrible,” Gianinna told the court in the northern Buenos Aires suburb of San Isidro, near where Maradona died while convalescing after surgery for a brain clot.
Gianinna said the medics convinced her and her siblings that their father could recuperate safely at his rented home in the suburb of Tigre.
She said the doctors presented this as a “serious” option and assured that his residence would be well-equipped in medical terms.
“I trusted these three people, who only manipulated us and left my son without a grandfather,” she added, referring to neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and nurse Carlos Diaz.
