They accuse Maradona of raping a minor: “He had me kidnapped”
Although his charisma, eloquence and talent for soccer are some of the elements for which his thousands of fans around the world follow and admire him, the reality is that the history of the Argentine Diego Armando Maradona is mired by his excesses as well as many controversies about his personal life, which led him to leave very soon the sport he practiced.
This time a woman from 37 years of name Mavys Álvarez denounced that Maradona had her “kidnapped” for much of her life while she was still a child (16 years) and that also raped her .
The Cuban woman declared before the Argentine Justice the 18 November 2021 ; The complaint not only splashes the “Fluff”, but also a significant number of people within their environment for the crime of human trafficking .
Not only that, Álvarez also offered statements to Infobae amid the tears of the alleged bad times and moments she suffered while Maradona was with her in Cuba.
“It is the first time that I come to Argentina after 2001 when I came with Diego. Now I was able to walk a bit, at that time I had not been able to see anything. I was kidnapped ”
Mavys Álvarez
Abuses and excesses: chronicle of the relationship of Maradona with a minor
A close friend of the former soccer player was the one who took the young Cuban from the Matanzas region to the presence of Maradona, who was in the year 2000 in Varadero. The meeting took place in a hotel .
Álvarez, who was a minor at the time, started a relationship with Maradona and despite the harsh policies imposed by the Cuban dictatorship of not let its inhabitants leave the island, he was able to visit Argentina in 2001 for a tribute party, where she herself recounted that she started her hell.
Diego took her to nightclubs already parties with people of doubtful origin. “ We were getting high , a friend of his got the drugs,” he confessed.
Without the consent of their parents who were still locked up in Cuba, Maradona pressured Álvarez to have a breast augmentation operation , for which he hired a surgeon who also knew that she was a minor and had no approval from her parents, said the Cuban.
He said that I was going to look better, that they were going to take the care I needed, that everything would be fine, that the doctor was going to talk to me and not be afraid ”
The doctor in charge of the operation was Alfredo Cahe , who explained to him that the size requested by Maradona could not be given since his breasts and skin could not support the implant, which would have to be a smaller one.
It was several months of development brake and excesses to which then returned to Cuba and the relationship ended. At this point Mavys already had 17 years.
I spent several days without leaving the hotel where he had her “kidnapped” and only had contact with a security team outside the room as well as the nearby environment.
“ I was locked up, I couldn’t get out , I depended on everyone for everything and no one did anything to make me feel good (…) he had me kidnapped, “he said.
The point of the conversation with Infobae harder was when revealed that she was raped , all this with her mother in tears outside the room.
” My mom came to the house where we were in Havana and he didn’t want to open the room door for her, my mom knocked on the door, he covered my mouth, so that I wouldn’t scream, so that I didn’t even said nothing and abused me , he abused me, raped me, that happened, my mother was knocking on the door insistently, she wanted to see me and would not let her, “she said crying.
“Because maybe it caused her morbid, my mother was playing, lowb Oh, I would go up and cry behind the door, he wouldn’t let me scream, I couldn’t, he told me shut your mouth, shut your mouth, I couldn’t, “explained Mavys.
The ex-footballer always had a close relationship with the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro , which is why he always received preferential attention during his short stays on the island.
From left to right: Mavys Álvarez, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Maradona.
Another traumatic experience for Álvarez was when Maradona He mistreated her . They were sleeping when the cell phone rang, when she answered, a woman named Claudia who was asking about Diego answered. is calling you. He says to me: ‘What do you have to do? You have to answer my phone, my cell phone!’ He grabs the cell phone and throws it against the wall. He starts insulting me, grabs me, throws me against the bed, slaps me and says: ‘Never in your life ever touch my cell phone again! Never! ‘, Threatening to kill me, ”he explained.
Never said anything out of fear and shame
Between the fear and shame , Álvarez preferred to save all this unpleasant experience and continued his life locked up in Cuba.
However, he decided to tell the truth and report after 20 years out of love for his daughter , who will comply 15 years soon, almost the same as she was when she was “kidnapped” by Diego.
With the death of Fidel Castro and Maradona himself, he decided to contact an organization to help him, in addition to making the exits from Cuba more flexible.
Maradona’s environment knew about the relationship
“All adolescent children, boys are difficult and it made me think and remember the fact that my daughter is almost the same age as I was back then. My thought fired up but I reaffirmed it more when I read the note that Infobae had published. A friend alerts me and tells me that they had posted that note and that they were saying my name. They had never said it. I made up my mind because I didn’t want them to tell a false story about my life, ”he said.
The case in charge of federal judge Daniel Rafecas includes five accused people, all part of Maradona’s environment who accompanied him in 2000 and 2001.
The complaint was made by Fernando Míguez de la NGO Foundation for Peace and Climate Change, in the Office that investigates trafficking crimes (Protex).
