A 39-year-old Italian DJ left
blind and tetraplegic by a 2014 car crash, DJ Fabo, is dead
after an assisted suicide procedure in Switzerland,
right-to-death activist Marco Cappato said on Monday.
"Fabo died at 11:40," Cappato, a former MEP who accompanied
the DJ to Switzerland at the weekend, wrote on his Facebook
page.
"He chose to go respecting the rules of a country that is not
his".
DJ Fabo, who appealed to President Sergio Mattarella for the
right to die, had blasted Italy for failing to pass legislation
on end-of-life issues.
"Finally I am in Switzerland and, unfortunately, I got here
on my own strength and not with the help of my State," said
Fabo, whose real name is Fabiano Antoniani, in a video posted on
Twitter on Monday.
He also thanked Cappato, a leading member of the Associazione
Luca Coscioni that lobbies for the right to die.
"He lifted me out of this inferno of pain, pain, pain," said
Fabo.
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