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Three funeral workers were fired for posing for photos with the body of soccer player Diego Maradona shortly before his funeral.
The images distributed on social media created outrage, including death threats, in a nation that revered Maradona, who died Wednesday of a heart attack at age 60. Tens of thousands lined up for a chance to parade in front of his body at the nation’s presidential palace on Thursday.
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Claudio Fernández confirmed to Radio 10 on Friday that he had lost his job at the Pinier funeral home, along with his son Ismael and Claudio Medina.
One of the images shows Fernández and his son, smiling and thumbs up, next to Maradona’s body in the coffin on Thursday. Medina appears in another in the same pose.
Fernández insisted that he did not know that they planned to take a photograph, much less distribute it. “It was instantaneous. I had just raised my head and my son did it like any 18-year-old. [years old]”he told the radio station.
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Marcelo Bielsa believes that the loss of Diego Maradona will have a great impact on the world.
He said he had been receiving threats from other people living in the La Paternal neighborhood where Maradona made his professional debut in 1976 with the Argentinos Juniors team.
“They know me. I’m from the neighborhood,” Fernández said. “They say they are going to kill us, that they are going to break our heads.”
The team released a statement saying it was considering removing Fernández from its membership rosters.
