BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — One of the forensic experts responsible for performing Diego Maradona’s autopsy said the Argentine soccer great suffered agony for at least 12 hours before he died and noted that “any doctor” should have noticed symptoms several days earlier.
Carlos Cassinelli, director of Forensic Medicine at the Scientific Police Superintendency, on Thursday provided details of the autopsy performed the day of Maradona’s death — Nov. 25, 2020 — during home hospitalization in a house located in the Buenos Aires municipality of Tigre.
“The heart was completely covered in fat and blood clots, which indicate agony,” the specialist said during the homicide