A man saw the case against him
for allegedly helping a friend commit assisted suicide in a
Swiss clinic shelved on Monday.
The man had only given his friend a lift to the Swiss border
and his contribution to the assisted suicide was thus judged to
be minimal and not liable for prosecution, a preliminary
investigations judge ruled.
The Como judge shelved the case on the request of the
prosecutor instead of indicting the man, who has not been named,
Il Giorno newspaper said.
The friend committed suicide because of an intractable
depression, sources said.
The Constitutional Court recently gave parliament until next
year to fill a legislative vacuum on euthanasia, putting off a
ruling in the case of Radical Party member Marco Cappato who
helped a blind and tetraplegic DJ, Dj Fabo, commit assisted
suicide in Switzerland.
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