The US State Department has requested an investigation into the case of Noelia Castillo, a 25-year-old Spanish woman who received authorization in Spain to die by euthanasia.
Ministry sources told the newspaper New York Post that Donald Trump’s government instructed the American Embassy in Madrid to collect information on how the case was managed by the Spanish State and the decisions that allowed the practice of assisted suicide to be carried out.
Officials cited in the publication on condition of anonymity expressed concern about possible failures in the system for protecting vulnerable people and questioned the application of the euthanasia law in cases of non-terminal suffering or psychiatric conditions.
Furthermore, he indicated that Noelia Castillo had expressed doubts about the procedure, but that these signs were ignored, generating “concerns about human rights”.
Noelia Castillo died at the age of 25 after receiving authorization for euthanasia in Sant Pere de Ribes (Barcelona), following a long legal battle with family members, who reject assisted suicide.
The young woman’s decision was made after living for more than four years with paraplegia and chronic pain, caused by episodes of extreme violence, a gang rape she suffered at the time, followed by a suicide attempt, which resulted in a fall that left her with serious consequences.
His case received approval from the Catalan Guarantee and Evaluation Commission, the independent committee that analyzes and evaluates each request for assisted death.
The president of the Christian Lawyers Foundation, José María Fernández, said that he remained hopeful “until the last moment” that the young woman might change her mind, something that did not happen.
Speaking to journalists, Fernández considered that the case was a “failure of the system”.
Both the judge who gave the go-ahead for euthanasia and subsequently the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia concluded that throughout the judicial process Noelia’s “lack of capacity” to decide on the issue was not found.
Spain criticizes US “meddling” in the Noelia Castillo case
Spain’s Health Minister, Mónica García, responded this Wednesday (1st) to Donald Trump’s administration that she “should stop feeding the ultra-international agenda, meddling in everything”.
In a message published on social media, the Spanish minister emphasized that “in the USA, thousands of people die every year without health insurance, while Trump supports and carries out human rights violations between Gaza and Iran.”
In the message, García refuted the request made by the Trump administration to investigate Noelia’s death, emphasizing that it occurred within the law that governs the country.
