Workers employed to carry Diego Maradona's casket are facing widespread condemnation after posing for photos with his body
- Workers employed by a funeral home to carry the casket of Diego Maradona are facing widespread condemnation after posing for pictures with the star's body.
- Pictures circulated online, which Insider is choosing not to publish, show three men posing next to Maradona's open casket, with his body clearly visible.
- Maradona, 60, died on Wednesday after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Workers employed by a funeral home to carry the casket of Diego Maradona are facing widespread condemnation after posing for pictures with the star's body.
Maradona, 60, died on Wednesday after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Tributes to Maradona, who is widely considered one of the greatest players in the history of soccer, have poured in from around the world, and his casket was placed in state at Argentina's presidential palace.
Pictures circulated online, which Insider is choosing not to publish, show three men posing next to Maradona's open casket, with his body clearly visible.
One photograph features a single man giving a thumbs up, while another features a pair of different men, also giving the thumbs up gesture.
According to Yahoo! Sports, the men are workers who were hired by the company dealing with Maradona's funeral to carry his casket.
"He is not an employee here, he is a third party who only helped us load the casket because it weighs a lot," Matías Picón, the manager of the Sepelios Pinier funeral home, said of one of the men, according to Argentine news site TN.
"The family chose a cedar box that is very difficult to transport and that is why we summoned him, just to carry the box.
Diego Picón, who is Matías' father according to TN, said that the men took the pictures after having finished their work moving the casket.
"The three outsourced employees that we called and appear in the images, we took away their mobile phones in the morgue," he said.
"We gave them back to them when all the work had been finished," at which point the men took the pictures, he added.
Maradona's lawyer, Matias Morla, said that he will not rest until the people who took the photos are made to "pay."
"I am going to personally take care of finding the scoundrel who took that photograph. All those responsible for such an act of cowardice will pay," he tweeted.
Morla previously said that emergency services took over 30 minutes to reach Maradona after his cardiac arrest, something he described as "criminal idiocy."
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