A Spanish court has made a historic decision. A paraplegic defendant was authorized to end his life to avoid trial for attempted murder.
The right of suicide. Marin Eugen Sabau, 46, a Romanian security guard, was due to appear in Spanish justice for shooting his former colleagues from a security company, in December 2021, in Tarragona, eastern Spain. In a fit of violence, he had seriously injured four people including a policeman. The shooter ended up being neutralized by the Catalan police. During this confrontation, he had shot in the spine and had become a paraplegic.
The right to euthanasia
As revealed The Guardian, the National Court of Tarragona validated in early August an earlier court ruling that, given his condition, Marin Eugen Sabau had right to euthanasia under a law passed in March 202 that legalizes the practice. Euthanasia is a “fundamental right” in which the judicial system cannot intervene, the Court said. Spanish law allows adults with “serious and incurable pathologies” causing “unbearable suffering” of choose to end their lives.
In a message sent from the prison hospital last July, Marin Eugen Sabau said: “I’m a paraplegic. I have 45 stitches in one hand and I can barely move my left arm. I’m full of screws and I can’t feel my chest anymore.“. In its judgment, the court acknowledged that he had caused “pain as well as physical and moral damage to its victims” and that there was reason to believe that he would be convicted of crimes. However, she added, her condition causes her “permanent physical and psychological suffering without the slightest possibility of relief”. So this man got the right to die.
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To avoid a lawsuit, he is authorized by the justice to commit suicide
The shooter ended up being neutralized by the Catalan police.
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To avoid a lawsuit, he is authorized by the justice to commit suicide
During this confrontation, he was shot in the spine and became paraplegic.
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To avoid a lawsuit, he is authorized by the justice to commit suicide
The National Court of Tarragona validated in early August an earlier court ruling that, given his condition, Marin Eugen Sabau was entitled to euthanasia under a law passed in March 202 which legalizes the practice.
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To avoid a lawsuit, he is authorized by the justice to commit suicide
Euthanasia is a “fundamental right” in which the justice system cannot intervene, the court said.