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Maradona fined for 1994 air rifle attack
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -- Diego Maradona has been ordered to pay $15,000 to an Argentine reporter he shot with an air rifle in 1994. A Buenos Aires judge made the ruling on Thursday in favor of photographer Raul Moleon, a former employee of Caras magazine, who was among five journalists attacked outside Buenos Aires by Maradona. The photographer, part of a media stakeout of a country residence in Moreno, was wounded in the hand and ribs by shots fired by Argentina's former World Cup captain. Moleon's lawyers, who had asked for damages of more than $50,000, said they would appeal against the decision. Maradona was sentenced to more than two years in jail in 1998 for the shooting, but the prison term was suspended. The judge ruled that Moleon was not infringing on Maradona's privacy at the moment of the attack. A 1999 appeal by Maradona's legal team was turned down but the sentence was reduced. Maradona currently coaches struggling Argentine first division side Almagro but he has spent much of last year in Cuba being treated for a life-threatening heart condition related to alcohol and drug abuse.
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