Diego Maradona’s neighboring doctor declares that he tried to help him

Colin Campbell Irigoyen is a doctor. It specializes in plastic, repairing and aesthetic surgery. On November 25, 2020 he was summoned by the Security Guard of the private neighborhood San Andrés, in Tigre, to go and help a neighbor. That person was Diego Armando Maradona. But he couldn’t do anything. «I took the vital signs and it was very cold. By my experience and my knowledge as a doctor I can say that it was a while that was like that,»he said, at the time, as a witness.

Today, Campbell Irigoyen must talk about everything he remembers of that noon before the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) No. 3 of San Isidro, in charge of the debate where seven suspects are judged for their alleged responsibility in the death of Maradona.

The doctor will be the main witness of the fourth audience of the trial. “When I enter the room was the nurse (by Gisela Dahiana Madrid) by making cardiac massage and a custodian by breathing mouth to mouth. The psychiatrist (By Agustina Cosachov) I was next to the bed, but I wasn’t doing anything. I asked how much I was doing so and they told me that they saw him in the morning, that he had breakfast and then locked in the room. This told me, I think the psychiatrist, but I can’t affirm it. It could also be the nurse. But I think a woman and the person who was at the door, Maxi (by Maximiliano Pomargo), the assistant. They told me that they found him like this, without vital signs, that is, without a pulse, he would do 20 minutes, half an hour. I heard that from someone, but I cannot specify who because I was concentrated, starting the maneuvers in conjunction with the nurse and the custodian, ”said Campbell Irigoyen, as stated in the requirement of elevation to trial presented, at the time by the General Prosecutors of San Isidro, Patricio Ferrari and Cosme Iribarrenand the Benavidez prosecutor Laura Capra.

Campbell Irigoyen, by declaring in the instruction of the case, he also said: «I took the vital signs and it was very cold. From my experience and my knowledge as a doctor I can say that it was a time that was like that, without being able to determine how exactly. It had cold sweating. The arm was loose, loose».

The testimonial statement of another doctor, Juan Carlos Pinto, is also expected. This is the optional that arrived in the San Andrés neighborhood in an ambulance of the emergency service +life.

When he declared in the instruction of the case, according to the request for elevation to trial, Pinto recalled that he arrived at the house where Maradona lived at 12.30 and said that in the room there was a doctor in the neighborhood (by Campbell Irigoyen) and a nurse (by Madrid) compressing Maradona’s body that was on the bed on his back. “I performed the determination of the electrical activity with the defibrillator and the patient was in Asistolia, which means without electrical activity, that the heart was basically stop verifying the death at 13.15 ”.

The police

The day before yesterday, before the Judges Verónica Di Tommaso, Maximiliano Savarino and Julieta Makintach They declared the first police officers who entered the room of the house where Maradona lived their last 14 days of life.

Lucas Farías, Today undercomise of the Buenos Aires Policeyou can never forget an image.

«It looked out to the room and I see in bed a prominent bulge. I was covered»Farías recalled. It was Diego’s body. «It caused me a huge surprise to see Maradona like this»He said, on the verge of emotion, the witness.

After having seen the body of the star, Farías decided to stay and preserve the place and notify the prosecutor Capra.

When prosecutors Iribarren and Ferrari, in charge of the public accusation, they asked him again what had caught the attention of what he observed, Farías replied: «I was struck by the cadaveric position, the very inflated abdomen about to explode, I was surprised to see Maradona like this. I never thought about meeting that image».

The first witness of the audience and debate was the commissioner Major Borge, head of the Superintendence of Security Region Norte I.

«I saw Maradona dead. I was with a white savannah as if he was sleeping. He had the belly very swollen. I had a black shirt and a short gymn and fencing sapnsta shorts»Borge said.