Diego Maradona’s lawyer, Matias Morla, has accused medics of ‘criminal idiocy’ and demanded an investigation into the football legend’s death.
Morla claimed the World Cup winner was left for 12 hours without aid before he died of a heart attack aged 60, just two weeks after he was discharged from hospital following surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain.
He also claimed it was ‘criminal idiocy’ that an ambulance took 30 minutes to arrive and vowed that the circumstances surrounding Maradona’s death would be ‘investigated to the end’.
Maradona’s body was taken to the presidential palace in an ambulance, where it is lying in state, covered in an Argentinian flag and his signature number 10 shirt.
Thousands of fans streamed past Maradona’s body at the palace, clapping, pumping their fists and throwing flowers, flags and football shirts at the foot of the casket on the first of three days of national mourning.
An autopsy report leaked to Argentine media said he died in his sleep after suffering heart failure, only two weeks after leaving hospital following surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain.
