Diego Maradona’s heirs managed to cease the public sale of the Ballon d’Or that the Argentine star acquired after the 1986 World Cup after a French court docket ordered that the trophy be positioned beneath judicial embargo.
The Versailles appeals court docket reversed a court docket resolution issued final week that allowed the public sale to proceed regardless of the rejection of Maradona’s heirs.
For the appeals court docket, there’s a real dispute over the true proprietor of the Ballon d’Or that Maradona gained after being proclaimed the most effective participant of the 1986 event.
Pending a decision on the deserves of the case, the court docket ordered a judicial embargo to keep away from the chance of the trophy disappearing once more, because it had been lacking for many years.
Gilles Moreu, the lawyer representing Maradona’s 5 kids, knowledgeable the AP company that he’ll proceed to file an enchantment for a court docket to assessment the deserves of the case and determine who’s the proprietor of the trophy.
French justice opened an investigation final month after receiving a grievance about an alleged theft.
The Ballon d’Or trophy, for the most effective participant within the World Cup, was lacking for many years amid circumstances which have by no means been clarified, and it just lately appeared. Maradona’s household claims that the trophy was stolen and that the present proprietor doesn’t have the facility to promote it. Aguttes indicated that the trophy reappeared in 2016 as a part of quite a bit acquired by a personal collector in Paris.
The present proprietor and Aguttes guarantee that when the person acquired the trophy years in the past, he didn’t know that it had been stolen.
Maradona acquired the award at a ceremony on the Lido cabaret on the Champs-Elysées in 1986. He later disappeared, producing every kind of rumors.
Some claimed that he misplaced it taking part in poker or that he bought it to pay his money owed, Aguttes stated. Others claimed that Maradona saved it safely in a financial institution in Naples and it was stolen by a gang of gangsters from the area in 1989, when he was taking part in within the Italian league. In keeping with the story instructed by a member who stop the mafia, the trophy was melted down and become gold items. Maradona’s heirs suspect it was stolen from the financial institution.
Maradona, who died in 2020 on the age of 60, acquired the award for his sensible efficiency as captain of Argentina, which lifted the cup by beating West Germany 3-2 within the closing on the Azteca stadium in Mexico Metropolis. However first, he scored the controversial “Hand of God” aim and the “Purpose of the Century” within the 2-1 victory over England within the quarterfinals.
Aguttes introduced final week the postponement of the public sale as a result of theft investigation.
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– 2024-06-13 10:33:35
