Sara Guglielmetti Martina Oppelli She was 49 years old and suffered from multiple sclerosis. She died in Switzerland via assisted suicide, after being denied three times in Italy. Before her death, Martina had reported the local health authority (ASL) for torture.
Martina Oppelli dies in Switzerland at the end of her life: three noes from the local health authority in Italy.
She died after obtaining access to assisted suicide in Switzerland. The 49-year-old woman he had been suffering from multiple sclerosis for twenty years and, despite the fact that she was suffering from a serious disabling disease, in Italy she she was denied the right to assisted suicide three times. Before dying, Martina, through her legal representative Filomena Gallo, lawyer and national secretary of the Luca Coscioni Association, a complaint against the ASL Giuliano Isontina University. Here are the details.
"I was denied a right," Martina Oppelli reported to the Local Health Authority before her death.
During today's press conference in Trieste, the treasurer of theLuca Coscioni Association, Marco Cappato, reported that Martina Cappelli, through the lawyer Filomena Gallo, has filed a complaint against the ASL, which has denied her the right to the assisted suicideMartina Oppelli was charged with two main crimes:
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Torture: referring to the physical and psychological suffering due to denials and the long wait for a definitive answer;
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Refusal to perform official duties: or failure to comply with the obligations established by law towards him.
But here are the words of Marco Cappato: “with Claudio Stellari, Matteo D'Angelo and Felicetta Maltese we decided not to go to the police to report ourselves, because the report already exists, and it is Martina's complaint against a state that forced her to suffer real torture, against a Friuli Venezia Giulia Region health service that failed to perform its duty, in line with President Fedriga's political positions on the matter. We are, however, available for any investigations to provide all the information on the assistance provided to Martina. We will continue our civil disobedience actions and to demand the scheduling of the popular initiative law for legal euthanasia.