16/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European parliamentarian Emma Bonino (Technical group of independent MEPs) presented, on Wednesday to the plenary, during a press conference, Luca Coscioni, who is at the top of the Emma Bonino List in the next elections expected in Italy, and who, hit by a particularly serious sclerosis, in incapable of speaking or moving. Luca Coscioni, 33 years of age, spoke before the press using a portable computers and a voice synthesiser, and explained that he had been auditioned the eve by the European Parliament Temporary Committee on Human Genetics, to which he had made a call in order to the Parliament to review its decision through which, on 7 September 2000, it was opposed to therapeutic cloning. Let us think of what could have been for humanity the introduction of antibiotics, said Mr Coscioni, while criticising the Italian political leaders who "obey Vatican bureaucrats" and recalling that the United States and the United Kingdom a legislation on therapeutic cloning has existed for more than seven months and that experimentation on humans began two years ago, while France, Germany, Sweden and the "very Catholic" Spain "are moving in great strides in this directions".