Tribunale di Milano, Corte d’Assise, order 14 Febbraio 2018: Court of Assize of Milan, Italy: Mannucci Pacini, President; Simi de Burgis, Judge; Marco Cappato, Defendant: 14 February 2018

Human rights – Right to life – Right to die – Right to respect for private and family life – End-of -life decisions pertaining to the instigation and aiding of suicide – Mr A was a tetraplegic man on artificial respiration and alimentation, suffering from bilateral cortical blindness, contractions, and spasms, his cognitive functions were intact – D taking Mr A to Switzerland for the purpose of undergoing voluntary euthanasia – Whether assisting Mr A to travel to Switzerland to undergo voluntary euthanasia amounted to the instigation and aiding of a suicide – Whether aiding a man already determined to undergo voluntary euthanasia, to implement his will by taking him to Swiss clinic by car amounted to aiding suicide – Whether art 580 of the Italian Criminal Code punishing instigation and aiding of suicide constitutionally legitimate – Italian Constitution arts 3, 13, 25 second para, art 27 third para, art 117 – European Convention on Human rights, arts 2 and 8