A Milan judge on Monday sent the two
latest assisted suicide cases involving right to die activist
Marco Cappato to the Constitutional Court.
The preliminary investigations judge in the Lombard capital,
where Cappato self-reported himself to police for the incidents,
has sent the documents to the supreme court for it to assess the
constitutional legitimacy of the crime of aiding and abetting
suicide for which Cappato is charged for having accompanied the
two people to die in a Swiss clinic.
The cases concern Romano, 82, a former journalist and publicist,
confined to a bed by a severe form of Parkinson's disease, and
Elena, 69, a Venetian woman terminally ill with cancer.
Prosecutors in the cases had asked for charges to be dropped in
the light of previous Constitutional Court rulings which have
been used to justify some but not all assisted suicide cases
involving Italians.
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