Right to die campaigner Marco Cappato
has been placed under investigation in Milan for a second trip
to help an Italian commit assisted suicide in a Swiss clinic
last week, sources said after the Luca Coscioni Association
treasurer reported himself to prosecutors Monday morning.
Radical party member Cappato, 51, told prosecutors he had
committed another act of civil disobedience in taking
ex-journalist and copy writer Romano, 82, to the Dignitas Clinic
in Zurich after helping a 69-year-old Veneto terminal cancer
sufferer, Elena Altramira, kill herself there last summer.
Cappato has been cleared in several other previous cases.
Romano, a chronic Parkinson's sufferer, committed assisted
suicide on Friday afternoon, his daughter said in a video posted
online.
The pensioner of Tuscan origin and resident at Peschiera
Borromeo, near Milan, "would have wished to die at home
surrounded by his loved ones," said the daughter, Francesca.
Cappato said he would turn himself in to police in Milan
and said "he once more risks up to 12 years in prison".
He added: "It is unworthy of a civilized country to continue to
tolerate clandestine death in exile".
Although it is still formally illegal, a Constitutional Court
ruling on assisted suicide has provided the basis for some
regions to allow lethal drugs to be taken by some patients
wishing to end their lives.
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