Italy's Constitutional Court on
Tuesday opened a hearing on 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.
Cappato accompanied DJ Fabo to the Swiss clinic where he
committed assisted suicide last year.
The Constitutional Court's decision could be 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 Tuesday.
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