Marco Cappato

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Marco Cappato (2006)

Marco Cappato (born May 25, 1971 in Milan ) is an Italian politician ( Radicali Italiani ). He was a member of the European Parliament from 1999-2004 and 2006-09 .

Life and political career

Cappato grew up in Monza , graduated from high school in 1989 and studied economics at the Università Bocconi in Milan by 1994 . He then worked as a communications manager in a factory.

Cappato joined the Transnational Radical Party (TRP) in 1991, which had emerged two years earlier from the Italian Partito Radicale , and in 1994 became secretary of the Club Pannella Riformatori movement , which coordinated the activities of the TRP in Italy. From 1995 he was a temporary agent in the group of the Radical European Alliance in the European Parliament, from 1996 treasurer of the coordination office for the lifting of the drug ban and 1997/98 representative of the TRP at the UN in New York. From 1999 to 2001 he was the coordinator of the Comitato dei Radicali per la rivoluzione liberale e gli Stati Uniti d'Europa (Committee of Radicals for the Liberal Revolution and the United States of Europe ), from which the Radicali Italiani party emerged in 2001 .

Cappato in an interview in 2010

From 1999 to 2004 and from 2006 to 2009 he was a member of the European Parliament as a representative of the Lista Emma Bonino (Radicali Italiani) . There he belonged to the Technical Group of Independent Members from 1999-2001 , after which he was non-attached. The Brussels weekly European Voice voted Cappato European of the Year in 2002 . In the same year he was arrested - along with his British colleague Chris Davies - in Manchester for civil disobedience to the drug ban laws and imprisoned for four days. In his second legislative term, he replaced Emma Bonino, who became a minister in Italy. Subsequently he was a member of the liberal ALDE parliamentary group , from 2007-09 he was also a member of its executive committee. He was deputy chairman of the delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries, as well as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Human Rights .

From 2004 to 2011, Cappato was secretary of the Associazione Luca Coscioni for the freedom of scientific research, which was founded by his party colleague Luca Coscioni who had ALS , and which advocates the liberalization of research on embryonic stem cells . He has been the treasurer of this organization since 2011. In the same year Cappato was elected to the city council of Milan, 2014-16 he also belonged to the parliament of the metropolitan city of Milan (consisting of the city and the surrounding area).

In February 2017, Cappato accompanied DJ Fabo, who was paralyzed to the neck after a car accident, to the Swiss association Dignitas in Pfäffikon ZH , where DJ Fabo was accompanied in suicide . After returning to Italy, Cappato reported himself to the law enforcement authorities in Milan that he had violated Article 580 of the Italian Criminal Code (StGB). The Milan jury suspended the proceedings and referred the question of whether Art. 580 StGB should still be considered constitutional before the Italian Constitutional Court . In October 2018, the latter decided to give the Italian parliament the opportunity to improve the contested Article 580 of the Criminal Code so that the interests of individuals that are generally recognized today are better taken into account. The verdict was announced on September 25, 2019, and he was acquitted on December 23, 2019. This caused quite a stir in Italy, where euthanasia is still politically controversial.

In January 2019, Cappato applied for the chairmanship of the new + Europe party , which the Radicali Italiani have joined, but lost 30.2% to Benedetto Della Vedova .

Web links

Commons : Marco Cappato  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.cortecostituzionale.it/documenti/comunicatistampa/CC_CS_20190917120907.pdf .
  2. ^ Acquittal for euthanasia activist Marco Cappato. In: stol.it , December 23, 2019.
  3. ↑ Myrte Müller: Controversial Catholic accuses of suicide in Switzerland: "DJ Fabo is not a hero, he is a coward". In: Blick , March 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Cappato, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan