(ANSA) - Rome, February 27 - A 39-year-old Italian DJ left
blind and tetraplegic by a 2014 car crash has arrived in
Switzerland in order to commit assisted suicide.
DJ Fabo, who had appealed to President Sergio Mattarella for
the right to die, has 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," he said
in a video posted on Twitter on Monday
He also thanked Marco Cappato, a former MEP and member of the
Associazione Luca Coscioni that lobbies for the right to die,
for accompanying him to Switzerland at the weekend.
"He lifted me out of this inferno of pain, pain, pain," said
Fabo, whose real name is Fabiano Antoniani.
DJ Fabo is set to be examined on Monday by doctors who will
also talk to him about his desire for assisted suicide.
DJ in Switzerland for suicide
DJ Fabo blasts lack of assistance from Italian State