Marco Cappato

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Marco Cappato
Member of the European Parliament
In office 8 May 2006 – 13 July 2009
Constituency	North-East Italy
In office 20 July 1999 – 19 July 2004
Constituency	North-East Italy
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 27 April 2006 – 8 May 2006
Constituency	Piedmont
Personal details
Born	(1971-05-25) 25 May 1971 (age 53) Milan, Italy
Political party	Italian Radicals (since 2001) Eumans (since 2022) Radical Party (1991–2007) More Europe (2018–2019)
Alma mater	Bocconi University
Profession	Activist, politician

Marco Cappato (Italian: [ˈmarko kapˈpaːto]; born 25 May 1971) is an Italian activist and politician. Cappato was an Italian Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009. He represented the Bonino List within the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe parliamentary group. He was member of the Foreign Affairs, Civil Liberties, and Human Rights committees. He also served as a vice-president of the European Parliament Delegation for the relations with the Mashrek Countries. He was the European Parliament's Rapporteur on human rights in the world for 2007.^[1]

A nonviolent activist for fundamental rights and liberties, in 2017 he undertook civil disobedience to push the Italian Parliament to approve new rules allowing legal euthanasia in Italy. Cappato breached the law by helping an Italian tetraplegic and blind man from Milan to reach a Switzerland clinic where assisted suicide was legal. Due to Cappato's trial on 24 September 2019, the Constitutional Court of Italy urged Parliament to adopt appropriate legislative protections corresponding to the principles and rights enshrined in Italy's constitution.