The trial into the death of Argentine football great Diego Maradona entered its seventh day on Tuesday, with testimony from three forensic experts.

Federico Corasaniti, head of the San Isidro Mortuary Division, was the first to take the stand, through a video call. 

He stated that Maradona’s swollen abdomen — something that shocked the audience when the prosecutor showed an image of the bloated stomach at the start of the original trial — was not a consequence of his death, but rather a problem that had surfaced while he was still alive, something that contradicted the defense team’s argument.

“If you pressed your fingers against the skin of the abdomen, it left an indentation; this is a sign of subcutaneous edema, which cannot possibly occur in a dead person,” he said, adding that one of the first signs that appears in corpses is dehydration, so this fluid was “produced while the person was still alive.”

He also noted that Maradona’s corpse presented ascites, the accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity, reaching over 3 liters.

“This doesn’t happen suddenly. It’s practically impossible. It had been developing for quite some time,” he said.

Corasaniti added that the forensic team found “firm clots,” which form when........

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