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A Spanish judge has allowed a former colleague to be euthanized before he faces trial for attempted murder after he was fired from his job and allegedly shot him.
Marin Eugen Sabau, 46, was killed by authorities on Tuesday as part of Spain’s controversial euthanasia law with three workers and a police officer at his former workplace. before being tried on multiple accounts of attempted murder. Reported by El Pais.
Police said Sabaw raided the offices of the security firm that fired him in December, disguised himself in a hat and wig, and opened fire on workers begging for their lives. After fleeing the place, Sabaw allegedly shot a police officer at a checkpoint before barricading himself in a farmhouse, where he was eventually shot by a police officer and arrested.
The Romanian-born Sabau claimed he was a victim of racism at work and that his boss had turned his life into a “living hell.”
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“Lessons learned in blood are not easily forgotten,” Sabaw wrote in an email to his former boss before the attack, adding that he was taking “the law into his own hands.”
According to Sabaw’s euthanasia petition, the gunshot fired by the police caused irreversible damage to his spine, causing leg amputation and partial paralysis.
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“I’m paraplegic. I have 45 points on my hand. I can’t move my left arm very well. I have screws and I have no feeling in my chest,” Sabaw said in a statement from the prison hospital.
Spain’s public prosecutor’s office had called for the euthanasia process to be delayed until the judicial system’s process was over, but Judge Sonia Zapatel Torres rejected the request, denying Sabau’s “fundamental right” to choose life or death. El Pais reported that it ruled that the
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“Of course he has the right to die with dignity, but what about compensation for victims?” Mireia Ruiz, a lawyer for one of Sabau’s victims, told El Pais.
Spain, along with Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, is one of four European countries that allows doctors-assisted suicide for adults experiencing “unbearable pain”.
The law, passed in March 2021, makes no exceptions for individuals involved in legal proceedings.