The last attempt by Christian Lawyers to try to prevent the euthanasia of the young N. lasted less than a month, who for almost a year and a half has suffered challenges from her father, represented by the ultras, to reverse in court the medical criteria that supported her.
As reported by the Constitutional Court in a statement, its Second Chamber, in an extraordinary session convened for this Friday and unanimously, has inadmissible “due to the manifest non-existence of violation of a fundamental right that can be protected under protection” the appeal for protection by the father of young N. The Chamber is made up of four progressive magistrates – Inmaculada Montalbán, María Luisa Balaguer, Ramón Saez and Laura Díez – and two conservatives – Enrique Arnaldo and César Tolosa.
Last January, the Supreme Court overturned the father’s appeal. Once the judicial remedies were exhausted, Christian Lawyers announced that it would continue its delaying strategy first before the Constitutional Court and even before the European Justice. The doors in Spain have already closed.
The decision now falls on the Barcelona contentious court that endorsed euthanasia in the first instance, which must decide whether to continue allowing Christian Lawyers to stop the materialization of N’s right to a dignified death.
The Generalitat understands that there is no appeal against the Supreme Court’s decision, so N.’s dignified death can now materialize. The final ruling of the High Court, argues the Attorney General’s Office, caused the suspension of euthanasia that was maintained as a precautionary measure to fall until the Supreme Court resolved the ultra entity’s appeal.
The young N., along with a 54-year-old man from Barcelona, are the only two people in Spain who cannot exercise their right to euthanasia because their relatives have appealed it judicially. Unlike the other family member, represented by a private lawyer, N.’s father has gone hand in hand throughout the entire procedure of the ultra entity, which has turned him into a banner of its offensive against dignified death.
The case of the 54-year-old man is also in the Supreme Court, which has considered that the doubt raised by the Generalitat about whether a family member is entitled to appeal for euthanasia is of interest to establish jurisprudence, and will study the merits of the appeal (unlike what has happened with that of Christian Lawyers).
In addition to appealing to the contentious courts against the agreement of the plenary session of 19 doctors and jurists of the Commission for the Guarantee and Evaluation of Euthanasia in Catalonia that approved the euthanasia of N. in July 2024, Christian Lawyers has taken criminal action against two of the experts who processed the young woman’s request. In this case, despite not being the subject of the lawsuit, the ultras have requested the suspension of N.’s euthanasia until he undergoes psychiatric treatment.
Source: www.eldiario.es
