Maradona Funeral Workers Fired For Taking Photos With Open Coffin

By Daily sports on November 29, 2020

Three funeral workers have been fired for posing for photos alongside the body of footballer Diego Maradona shortly before his funeral.

The images distributed across social media created outrage, even death threats, across a nation that venerated Maradona, who died Wednesday of a heart attack at age 60.

Tens of thousands lined up for a chance to file past his body at the nation's presidential palace on Thursday.

Argentine legend Diego Maradona died on Wednesday at his home near Buenos Aires following a heart attack.

Claudio Fernandez confirmed to Radio 10 on Friday that he'd lost his job at the Pinier funeral home, along with his son Ismael and Claudio Medina.

One of the images shows Fernandez and his son -- smiling and with thumb raised -- alongside Maradona's body in the coffin on Thursday. Medina appears in another in the same pose.

Fernandez insisted that he hadn't known they'd planned to take a photograph, much less distribute it. "It was something instantaneous. I'd just raised my head and my son did it like any kid of 18 [years old]," he told the radio station.

He said he had been receiving threats from others living in the La Paternal neighborhood where Maradona debuted as a professional in 1976 with the Argentinos Juniors team.

“They know me. I’m from the neighborhood,” Fernandez said. “They say they are going to kill us, break our heads.”

The team issued a statement saying it was considering expelling Fernandez from its membership rolls. (AP)

•PHOTO: Diego Maradona’s coffin

Source Daily sports

Posted November 29, 2020


 

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