1. Marco Cappato represented the Bonino List within the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe parliamentary group.
17 Facts About Marco Cappato
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Marco Cappato was member of the Foreign Affairs, Civil Liberties, and Human Rights committees.
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Marco Cappato served as a vice-president of the European Parliament Delegation for the relations with the Mashrek Countries.
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Marco Cappato was the European Parliament's Rapporteur on human rights in the world for 2007.
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Marco Cappato breached the law by helping an Italian tetraplegic and blind man from Milan to reach a Switzerland clinic where assisted suicide was legal.
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Marco Cappato graduated in economics at Bocconi University in Milan and, after a brief experience in the private sector, joined the Radical group at the European Parliament in 1995.
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Marco Cappato is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Delegation for relations with the Mashrek countries.
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In May 2009, the European Council replies to an interrogation submitted in March 2008 by Marco Cappato asking to know the extent of European Institutions dependence on Microsoft, and the savings from an eventual shift to free software.
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Marco Cappato is released few hours later without trial, although he had asked to go to Court.
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In September 2014 Marco Cappato promotes the Lower House in Italy the establishment of Parliamentary Intergroup for Legal Euthanasia and Legal Will.
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In late 2016, Fabiano Antoniani, aka Dj Fabo, paraplegic and blind after a car accident in 2014, asked Marco Cappato to help him to get assisted suicide in Switzerland.
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DJ Fabo died on 27 February 2017, after Marco Cappato drove to the clinic where the procedure was carried out.
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Aware of the criminal implications of his act, Marco Cappato reported himself to the police once back in his hometown of Milan the day after the suicide.
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Marco Cappato is prosecuted for having assisted Dj Fabo to travel to Switzerland to obtain assisted suicide.
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Marco Cappato was eventually acquitted of the charges on 23 December 2019.
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Marco Cappato has been therefore prosecuted and is currently under trial.
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In 2019, Marco Cappato founded the pan-European citizens' movement EUMANS - Citizens for democracy and sustainability.