Inside the chaotic Maradona trial that's lasted five months and counting

SAN ISIDRO, (Argentina) — The fraught and fiery trial of late football legend Diego Maradona’s medical team has at times been as turbulent as the life of Number 10 himself.

Legal proceedings have been ongoing since April over allegations that negligence by seven medical workers contributed to the Argentine star’s death in 2020.

The larger-than-life footballer died of heart failure and acute pulmonary edema – a condition where fluid accumulates in the lungs – two weeks after undergoing surgery.

The trial was supposed to conclude in August, but almost 70 witness and defendant statements and over 25 hearings later, it remains uncertain when the legal psychodrama will end.

The defendants, who insist Maradona died of natural causes, have spent months in a courtroom alongside the footballer’s distraught daughters.

As proceedings enter yet another month, AFP takes a look at the standout moments of the often dramatic case.