Italy's Constitutional Court on
Wednesday put off till next year the case of right-to-die
activist Marco Cappato, who is accused of assisting suicide for
helping 40-year-old blind and tetraplegic Italian ex-DJ Fabiano
Antoniani, better known as DJ Fabo, take his own life.
The top court said current norms were insufficient and
parliament should intervene to rule on the case.
Cappato accompanied DJ Fabo to the Swiss clinic where he
committed assisted suicide last year.
The Constitutional Court had been expected to make a landmark
ruling.
In February a Milan court sent the case to the top court,
asking it to verify whether a Fascist-era article in the
criminal code that punishes instigation to suicide, Article 580,
complies with the Constitution.
Cappato and DJ Fabo's partner Valeria Imbrogno were in court
on Wednesday.
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