A FUNERAL parlour worker has been sacked after taking a selfie by the open coffin of Diego Maradona.

The sick photo showing him doing the thumbs-up by the football legend’s body started circulating on social media this afternoon.

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Argentina's president Alberto Fernandez has decreed three days of mourning after the death of the legendary player of a suspected heart attack aged 60.

Maradona's body lay in a wooden coffin with the blue and white national flag and an Argentina soccer jersey with the famous number 10.

But earlier a funeral parlour employee, understood to have been one of the men tasked with preparing Maradona’s body for the wake, took a selfie of himself with open casket.

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The owner of the funeral parlour, a firm called Sepelios Pinier, confirmed to local media the worker had been sacked.

His coffin was left open for the family wake which preceded the public send-off where the coffin was closed at Argentina’s Pink House which started at 6am local time today.

Maradona’s lawyer Matias Morla named the sick selfie culprit and posted a social media picture of him on his official Twitter feed as he pledged to take legal action. 

“For the memory of my friend I am not going to rest until he pays for this aberration.”

As his body was brought to the presidential palace, fans clashed with police as they scrambled to get a glimpse of the Argentine football legend's casket in Buenos Aires.

Grief and passion boiled over as heartbroken supporters broke through barriers and brawled with riot police near the presidential palace.

Pictures also show hordes of tearful fans surrounding a white hearse last night as they desperately hoped for a glimpse of their hero's final journey through the capital.

Many of the mourners were in tears, and some wore the World Cup winner's number 10 Argentina jersey as they gathered at the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires to see his coffin.

The casket was covered in an Argentine flag and the No. 10 shirt he famously wore the national team.

Dozens of other shirts of different teams tossed in by weeping visitors were scattered on and around the casket.

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