Alain Cocq, 58, suffering from an incurable disease and who had made two health and hunger strikes in 2020 to demand the right to euthanasia, died this Tuesday morning in Switzerland by assisted suicide, announced his entourage. .

"I would like to inform you, hereby, of my death with dignity, within the framework of an assisted suicide procedure in Switzerland", writes Alain Cocq in an open letter addressed to the President of the Republic, to the government and to the parliamentarians and disseminated by its supporters.

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