Wednesday September 12, 2001

SWISS MALE NURSE ADMITS KILLING 27 ELDERLY PATIENTS

OBWALDEN, Switzerland, September 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) - A 32-year-old Swiss nurse, who media have identified as Roger Andermatt, has admitted to killing 27 elderly patients claiming they were mercy killings and that he was action out of compassion. The investigating magistrate, Orvo Nieminen, said that the accused "added that in some cases he felt relieved, somehow liberated, after the person had died."

Police say the male nurse, dubbed the "Angel of Death", carried out the killings between September 1995 and June of this year.

According to the BBC, euthanasia is tolerated in a number of Swiss cantons, provided strict rules are followed. According to national law, active euthanasia is illegal but is not regarded as a crime if a doctor administers lethal drugs to a person close to a painful death for his own use.

See the BBC coverage:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1537000/1537125.stm

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