The Constitutional Court will have to rule on the case of Marco Cappato, a member of the Luca Coscioni association who is being investigated for two cases of assisted suicide. Sara Cipolla, the judge in charge of Milan's preliminary investigations, has sent the documents to the Constitutional Court so that it can assess the constitutional legitimacy of Cappato's crime of accompanying two people to their deaths in the Dignitas clinic in Zurich. They are Elena Altamira, a 69-year-old from Veneto with terminal cancer who had also left a video with her provisions, and Romano N., 82, a former journalist and advertiser paralyzed by a severe form of Parkinson's disease. The former parliamentarian and activist, Cappato, had denounced himself in Milan in both instances. Judge Cipolla wrote to the Constitutional Court, requesting clarification on the possibility of prosecuting "individuals who facilitate the medically assisted suicide of an individual who is suffering from an irreversible pathology, a source of intolerable physical and psychological suffering, and has expressed a free and conscious decision to end their own life". According to Cappato, the referral to the Court "is an opportunity to respond to an increasingly urgent and pressing social reality on the part of people who demand not to have to undergo conditions of unbearable and irreversible suffering against their will like torture".
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