Buenos Aires, Dec 1 (NA) – A new preliminary hearing in the case investigating the death of Diego Armando Maradona will be held this Tuesday at the San Isidro Courts, according to sources in the case to the Argentine News Agency. The session will begin at 10:30 at Ituzaingó 340 and will deal with the witnesses who will testify in the trial that will resume on March 17, 2026, and the evidentiary agreements. The hearing was scheduled for last November 12 but was postponed due to problems with the lawyers' schedules. “The expectation is that the start date of the process will be confirmed,” the sources consulted stated, while adding: “The court has already ruled on the scope of the nullities. It is appealed and only awaits the Chamber's resolution for final confirmation”. Another source close to the investigation also spoke with NA and said: “We will present the evidence, the nullities, and there will be new motions from the parties”. The neurosurgeon and Maradona's personal physician, Leopoldo Luque; the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov; the psychologist Carlos Díaz; the clinical physician Pedro Pablo Di Spagna; the nurses Ricardo Omar Almirón and Dahiana Gisela Madrid; their boss, Mariano Perroni; and Nancy Edith Forlini, the doctor from Swiss Medical who coordinated Maradona's home hospitalization in Tigre, are the eight accused in the death of the 'Number 10'. Judges Pablo Rolón, Alberto Gaig, and Alberto Ortolani had rejected the request presented by the defenders Julio Rivas and Francisco Oneto - Luque's lawyers - for them to face a jury trial, considering it 'untimely', while also denying the unconstitutionality motion of article 22 bis of the CPP, as 'improper' and 'abstract'. The members of TOC No. 7 also dismissed the non bis in idem (thing already judged) motion requested by lawyer Vadim Mischanchuk (legal representative of Cosachov), maintaining that 'the requirements that enable its application in the present case were not met'. Maradona died on November 25, 2020, at his residence in the gated community of San Andrés, in the locality of Benavídez, due to acute heart failure, which caused acute pulmonary edema.
