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Tributes to Diego Maradona show how easily violence against women is ignored
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msn.comdeath, at the age of 60, it seems too big an ask to admit that our heroes, especially our sporting heroes, have been credibly accused of domestic violence.
Maradona’s face just doesn’t fit in that unpleasant picture – unless you’ve seen the video.First aired on an Argentine TV channel six years ago, it appears to show Maradona hitting his then girlfriend, a former professional football player called Rocio Oliva, who was three decades his junior.
Unsteady on his feet, Maradona shouts at her and then appears to strike her twice. The slaps are clearly audible on the soundtrack, as is Oliva shouting at him in Spanish: “Stop, stop.”Maradona didn’t challenge the video’s authenticity, but he did deny hitting Oliva.
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