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The remains of Diego Maradona were buried this Thursday in a cemetery on the outskirts of Buenos Aires after the massive and chaotic farewell that thousands of Argentines gave to the top Argentine soccer star.
Maradona was buried in the Jardin Bella Vista cemetery, about 40 kilometers from the Argentine capital and where his parents, Diego Maradona and Dalma Salvadora Franco, popularly known as ‘Don Diego’ and ‘Doña Tota’, who died in 2015, were already buried. and 2011, respectively.
Barely thirty people participated in the last goodbye to ‘Pelusa’ in the cemetery, where a religious ceremony presided over by a priest was held next to the coffin, wrapped in an Argentine flag.
Maradona’s family participated in the intimate farewell, including his daughters Dalma and Gianinna, his ex-wife Claudia Villafañe and his former representative Guillermo Cóppola.
The ceremony was private and lasted about an hour.
It was the end of a day marked by a popular goodbye not exempt from demonstrations of pain, soccer passion and even violent street overflows.
By decision of the family, the remains of ‘el 10’ were veiled in a burning chapel set up in one of the main rooms of the Casa Rosada, headquarters of the Executive.
The burning chapel was open to the public for almost twelve hours in which the passage of thousands of fans of the ex-footballer, who died on Wednesday at the age of 60, was incessant.
The line to enter the Casa Rosada extended for almost two kilometers and the incidents were unleashed when some fans, fearing they could not access before the imminent closing of the burning chapel, knocked down fences and confronted the Police.
There were even tense moments inside the Government House, which forced the entrance to be closed and the coffin removed from an adjoining room for security reasons.
According to official sources confirmed to Efe, thirteen people were arrested due to the riots and eleven police officers and a civilian were injured, who was admitted to a hospital for mild head trauma, the result of a stone.
After the wake, the remains of Maradona were transferred to the cemetery in a funeral procession that was greeted as it passed by thousands of people stationed at the edge of the path.
Maradona died this Wednesday in a house on the outskirts of Buenos Aires where he had moved this month after having been admitted to two health centers and being operated on for a subdural hematoma.
His death unleashed reactions from great sports, cultural and political figures in Argentina and around the world.
