A Cuban had filed a complaint for an affair with the former No. 10 when she was a minor.
The Argentinian justice dismissed the complaint of a Cuban, former affair of Diego Maradona when she was a minor, who accused the former idol of Argentinian football and his entourage of violence and abuse.
Judge Daniel Rafacas considered that Maradona’s death in November 2020 had “off» the legal action on the alleged facts, which moreover were prescribed, having occurred more than 20 years ago, at the very beginning of the 2000s.
Justice had heard at the end of November Mavys Alvarez Rego, mother of two children living in Miami (United States). She explained that she had met Maradona at 16, when the star, then in his forties, was living in Cuba, where he was undergoing drug treatment. She had indicated that she had had a relationship with him for 4 to 5 years, citing episodes of violence and, on one occasion, “a rape».
After having been “conquered“, she had explained how Maradona had pushed her to consume cocaine, making her in turn dependent. Then during a trip to Buenos Aires with the sportsman in 2001 for a series of tributes, she said that she had been held against her will for weeks in a hotel by relatives of the footballer, forbidden to go out alone, and forced into a breast augmentation operation.
The complaint, initially filed by an Argentine NGO, related in particular to human trafficking, deprivation of liberty, reduction in servitude, assault and battery.
Five relatives of Diego Maradona’s entourage implicated denied any involvement.
The judge considered that the alleged facts would have been “carried out mainly by Maradona, with the secondary participation of its collaborators between November 9, 2001 and January 19, 2002», therefore prescribed.
The legal representative of Mavys Alvarez in Argentina, Fernando Miguez, deplored that the magistrate did not summon witnesses. He stressed that the complaint was aimed at Maradona’s entourage and that the star’s death did not extinguish the legal action. He announced to AFP his decision to appeal to the investigating chamber.
