Article: Officials: Diego Maradona involved in nightclub melee in Bora Bora

FREDERIC GOUIS, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-25-2006
Dateline: PAPEETE, Tahiti
Former Argentine soccer player Diego Maradona's lawyers were working to have an assault complaint withdrawn against him after he allegedly threw a glass that struck a former French Polynesian beauty queen during a nightclub melee, officials said Wednesday.

Maradona, 45, accidentally hit a former Miss Bora Bora in the head with the glass _ intended for a man who had hit his daughter in the incident Saturday night, police and judicial officials said on condition of anonymity because the case was still under investigation.

Police have questioned Maradona, but did not detain him.

Maradona delayed his ...

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