Day four in the trial over the death of Argentine football superstar Diego Maradona started on Thursday, with the testimony of several law enforcement and medical witnesses.

The key witness was Juan Carlos Pinto, the doctor who signed Maradona’s death certificate.

Pinto, who works as an ambulance paramedic, said he received a call involving a high-risk patient in the gated community where Maradona lived. 

Upon arrival, he met with a doctor, a fellow resident of the private neighborhood where Maradona had rented a house, who had been called by the neighborhood security team after they were alerted that the former star needed attention.

According to Pinto, the doctor told him there was “nothing to do”. In the room, he found two people, a man and a woman, doing CPR on the former star.

Pinto said Maradona “didn’t have a pulse” when he got to the house and “looked like a balloon.”

“The patient was dead,” he said. “He was severely edematous, with a very swollen face,........

© Buenos Aires Herald