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The burial of Diego Maradona, who died Wednesday of cardiac arrest at age 60, It will be this Thursday in a cemetery on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where his parents are buried, a spokesman for the soccer legend told AFP.
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“The burial is today (Thursday), in the afternoon, in the Garden of Peace, in Bellavista” (northwest outskirts), Sebastián Sanchi told AFP.
The family of Diego Armando Maradona requested that the public wake, which began this Thursday at 4 am (Colombian time) at the Casa Rosada, headquarters of the Argentine Government, end at 2 pm (Colombian time), a period in which the thousands of people will have to enter. doing more than seven blocks of queue.
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From this Wednesday night, many fans waited in Plaza de Mayo for the opening of the wake. The government works with the hypothesis of a million people approaching to fire the idol, involved the ministries of Security, Defense and Health, in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic, and created a security perimeter closing the streets around the Casa Rosada.
Despite the excitement, the songs, flags and shirts create a climate of entering the field rather than mourning.
People enter walking along a fence, which within the Pink House It is covered with the Argentine flag. Although there were some riots at the opening of the wake, which forced the Casa Rosada headquarters to close for a few minutes, a couple of hours later the admission proceeds normally.
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