‘I would like him DEAD’: Diego Maradona funeral employee receives DEATH THREATS after taking SELFIE with deceased soccer icon

A funeral employee has obtained demise threats on-line and been fired from his job after he posed for a ‘selfie’ with the physique of the recently-deceased world soccer icon Diego Maradona.

The sick picture has been circulating on social media networks and exhibits the funeral employee posing with Maradona’s lifeless physique, resting one hand on the footballer’s head and giving a thumbs-up with the opposite. 

The person was a part of the staff tasked with making ready Maradona’s physique upfront of a personal open-coffin wake for the Argentina star’s shut family and friends which was as a result of happen on Thursday.

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Nevertheless, per studies on-line, the funeral employee has been fired from his job for an act seen by many as a gross desecration of Maradona’s corpse, whereas a number of livid followers are understood to have issued threats on-line after seeing the offending picture. 

“I would like this fats baldie who took an image of himself by Diego’s physique lifeless,” one particular person wrote on-line. “I would like him lifeless. DEAD.”

“He ought to be stripped of his Argentinian citizenship. You do not do one thing like this. Full lack of respect,” wrote one other, per the Every day Mail. 

After the open-coffin wake, a closed-coffin wake started on the Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires, with studies suggesting that as many as a million folks will descend upon the capital to pay their respects to their nation’s favourite son. 

A number of scuffles had been additionally obvious as followers jostled for place to catch a glimpse of Maradona’s coffin because it was transported to lie in state.

In the meantime, Maradona’s lawyer, Matias Morla, has claimed that Maradona was left unattended for a interval of round 12 hours previous to his demise and as he recovered from current mind surgical procedure. Moreover, he claimed that the ambulance took half an hour to reach – and has pledged to open an investigation into any improprieties. 

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“It’s inexplicable that for 12 hours my pal had no consideration or check-up from the personnel devoted to those ends,” Morla mentioned in a press release, additionally describing the time it took for the ambulance to reach as “legal idiocy“. 

Morla has additionally promised to take authorized motion towards the funeral employee chargeable for the picture, additionally going as far as to call the particular person on-line. 

“He is Pinier’s head of burials. [The funeral worker] is the swine that took the image of himself alongside Maradona. For the reminiscence of my pal I’m not going to relaxation till he pays for this aberration,” he wrote.