[ad_1]
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Diego Maradona’s doctor on Monday sought prosecutors who are investigating his treatment of the late Argentine soccer superstar before his death last week, but was rejected because he has not been charged with any crime. .
The investigation into Maradona’s death prompted prosecutors to search Dr. Leopoldo Luque’s home and office on Sunday. Medical records were taken but they did not charge him or say what motivated the investigation. Since then, Luque has launched a media offensive.
He has conducted extensive interviews with the press and has let the media know that he would appear at the prosecutor’s office in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Isidro, which is conducting the investigation.
Luque appeared at the office to give a statement, but was not allowed to do so “because he is not formally charged,” his lawyer, Mara Digiuni, tweeted. Maradona, considered one of the best players in history, died of a heart attack at age 60.
Members of Maradona’s family have said his death was preventable and his lawyer told reporters that a delay in the arrival of the ambulance to take Maradona to the hospital on the day of his death amounted to “criminal idiocy.”
Maradona became an international superstar and achieved semi-divine status at home after leading Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup. He battled addiction in recent years.
“Diego was tired, tired of being ‘Maradona,'” Luque told reporters on Sunday.
(Reporting by Ramiro Scandolo and Miguel Lo Bianco; written by Hugh Bronstein; Edited by Angus MacSwan)
[ad_2]
