July 29, 2013
Maradona accused of attacking photographer
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A celebrity magazine photographer has accused Diego Maradona of kicking him in the groin.
Gente magazine photographer Enrique Medina filed a police complaint claiming the 1986 World Cup winner attacked him outside Maradona’s father’s house on Sunday night.
Medina told The Associated Press yesterday that Maradona ran at him “like he was taking a free kick” and kicked him so hard in the groin and upper leg area that he “doubled over in pain”.
Maradona has often complained that the media follow him too closely. In 1994, he fired an air gun at reporters and was given a two-year suspended sentence. In May, he stopped his car on a highway and threw rocks at cameramen following him home from the airport.
