The court rejected the request for euthanasia by Chantal Sébire

The high court in Dijon puts forward "the state of the French law" to justify its decision. Counsel for the sick appealed to Nicolas Sarkozy to change the law on the end of life. Dismissed "in the state of French law." The high court in Dijon did not consider the request for euthanasia of Chantale Sébire, aged 52, disfigured by an incurable and progressive disease. "Even though the physical degradation of Mrs. Sébire deserves compassion," the court "rejects requette (sa)," according to the order of the first vice-president of TGI Dijon, René Jaillet issued Monday. In its expected, the judge argues that the complaint by Chantal Sébire "opposes the Code of Medical Ethics, which states that the doctor has no right to deliberately commit suicide." The ordinance states that the request "was also opposed to the Penal Code" which condemns assistance and assisted suicide. "Sick indicated that it would not appeal the ruling. Chantal's lawyer denounces Sébire "total hypocrisy" of the court decision and called Nicolas Sarkozy was to change the law on the end of life, describing it as "inhuman." "We must change the law as we see it leaves people on the side of the road," said Gilles Antonowicz at a press conference in Paris. The law of 2005 on the end of life tends to establish a right to "letting die" without permit active euthanasia as required Sébire Chantale. The Association for the right to die with dignity (ADMD) deplored for its part a court decision that she says "puts Chantale Sébire a sentence of suffering in life." "Never in a matter of justice pressure government has been so strong on judges," says the association. Custody of Sceaux Rachida Dati had stated last week that "medicine was not there to administer lethal substances."