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End of life: Cappato investigated in Milan for suicide aid

2022-08-04T14:18:23.432Z


Prosecutor assesses the territorial jurisdiction. The treasurer of the Coscioni Association had reported himself to the carabinieri after having accompanied Elena to Switzerland for assisted suicide. (HANDLE)


Marco Cappato was registered in the register of suspects of the Milan prosecutor's office.

The treasurer of the Luca Coscioni association is accused of assisting suicide in the case of Mrs. Elena, terminally ill with cancer but still self-sufficient, accompanied to die in Switzerland with assisted suicide.

Yesterday treasurer of the Luca Coscioni association, Marco Cappato, declared himself in Milan after having

accompanied Mrs. Elena

, terminally ill with cancer, to assisted suicide in Switzerland.

Deputy Prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano is evaluating the issue of territorial jurisdiction.



End of life, the message of the 69-year-old Venetian accompanied in Switzerland by Marco Cappato

"

There has been no response from Parliament

, from politics, from the heads of large parties. In these last two legislatures, our law of popular initiative presented 9 years ago has never been discussed for even a minute. Now we have come to this situation that faced with Elena's request, we could turn the other way or give her the help she was looking for, in the light of the sun and taking full responsibility for this ", said Marco Cappato.

"The Italian people have been prevented from deciding, in one way or another, on the legalization of euthanasia by the Constitutional Court, presided over by Giuliano Amato," Cappato added.

"Even the law of parliamentary initiative have not been able to approve. We have this path today, in the next legislature we will see - he added -. The rejection of the referendum affects, because if in June it was voted, if the Constitutional Court had not camped excuses to prevent citizens from voting today we would not be here ".


Source: ansa

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