Maradona's doctor investigated for possible negligence and culpable homicide

Posted Monday, November 30, 2020 by Marca.com

Leopoldo Luque, Diego Maradona's personal doctor, is under investigation in Argentina over the football legend's death.

He has been named by prosecutors in San Isidro, in Buenos Aires, and the judge has ordered for the doctor's house and clinic to be searched, with 30 police officers at each site.

There is a suspicion of medical negligence in the final days of Maradona's life and, therefore, a potential culpable homicide.

It has been claimed that Maradona didn't have the medical permission to leave the clinic where he had surgery for a subdural hematoma earlier in November. But, he did leave on November 11 to return to his home in Tigre, Buenos Aires.

The medical psychiatrist and one other person who was in the house when Maradona passed could also be investigated.

This legal investigation could go on for some time as the prosecutors look to get to the bottom of what exactly happened in the final hours of Maradona's life.

They'll look to work out if he had permission to be at home, why there wasn't a specialist doctor present 24/7, why there wasn't an ambulance at the house, if he had the right medicine, if the general medical protocols were followed, why there wasn't a defibrillator in the house and how the final hours were managed.