“I’m a little bruised but it’s okay”, says Maradona in the last video shot in those days before death. The former partner recorded it, Veronica ojeda, who is sitting next to him. The former Pibe de Oro appears tried after the operation on the head undergone for the removal of a subdural edema in the left region of the brain. The dressing is conspicuous, the latest sign of an exciting and troubled life that he carries on. His eyes are dull. Speak with difficulty. He murmurs something, he doesn’t articulate the words well. The posture seems to be that of an old man, sick, stunned by medicines, weighed down by the years and by the pathologies he has been suffering from for some time. Eat noodles in broth. His hands are trembling despite having placed them on the kitchen table. With the right – that of the legend of ‘D10s’ at the World Cup in Mexico, he holds a spoon. On the left he carries a breadstick, placed between his fingers. In front of him he has a cruet with wine.
Behind the cook moves, appearing and disappearing in front of the stove. The same one that the Argentine media will talk about him as a tired person: “He wanted to be alone, rest and have some peace of mind“, says ‘Monona’, the nickname with which Diego called the housekeeper, Romina Milagros Rodriguez. There is nothing left of the footballer who had enchanted the whole world with the magic of the goal of the century. Of the ‘Ten’ driving Argentina towards the Cup and Napoli towards the Scudetti, only the memory remains in the photos and videos of the time. You can hardly believe it is right The ten in that short clip that concludes by sending a “kiss” (a “kiss“) to Luque.
Leopoldo Luque he is the neurosurgeon investigated and considered by the magistrates the central figure in the open investigation into the death of the former Pibe, foreshadowing charges for medical negligence, neglect, manslaughter. And that “the fat man is dying”, referring to the latest hours of agony, pronounced on the phone to describe in a contemptuous, cynical way the decadent condition of Maradona caused a sensation, fueling the belief that – together with other evidence gathered on the place where he lived for the last few days – Diego had lacked adequate assistance in one of the moments more difficult and delicate due to his precarious state of health.
“You know I don’t like intimacy but when I’m with good people I go out of my den”, still whispers in the video Maradona that in the Olivos Clinic he had been accompanied by the specialist, his friend and – according to what emerged – the only doctor who could make decisions on the health of the former football player. Its role, its preponderance also emerges from some chats, messages WhatsApp, exchanged with the daughters of the former champion or in other conversations where he himself is object of criticism from family members or he talks about it in very harsh tones. “That bitch Jana wants to hospitalize him”, he says in one of the audio that ended up on the table of the prosecutor’s pool.
It is not the only one because in the reconstruction traced by the magistrates there is another person who has ended up under the lens of the investigators: it is the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, the doctor who he had prescribed psychiatric drugs dangerous, contraindicated for a patient already suffering from heart failure like Maradona. It is she who – according to the Argentine newspaper La Nacion – was accused of false ideology for having presented a certificate artifact a certificate in which it documented that her patient was “attentive, oriented in the person, in time and space”.
–
