Overview
- In a confidential instruction reported by ABC and the New York Post, the U.S. State Department told its embassy in Madrid to examine how Spain approved and carried out 25-year-old Noelia Castillo’s euthanasia and to convey “serious concern” to the Spanish government.
- The cable focuses on two issues by questioning the police and court response to assaults Castillo reported and by citing accounts that she expressed doubts in her final hours.
- Local reporting notes that Catalonia’s independent evaluation commission authorized the procedure under Spain’s 2021 euthanasia law and that courts found no evidence Castillo lacked decision-making capacity.
- Abogados Cristianos has filed a new complaint accusing the doctor who processed the case of prevarication due to her role as the Garraf transplant coordinator, even though Castillo revoked organ-donation consent and no retrieval occurred.
- The Spanish prosecutor has asked a Barcelona judge to archive a separate case against two commission members, reflecting official skepticism as the activist group continues to pursue litigation after Castillo’s death.