The judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in its judgment of Thursday, 5 September, in case C-417/18 that telecommunications companies must transmit, free of charge, information enabling the caller to be located to the authority handling 112 emergency calls, even if the caller’s mobile phone is not equipped with a SIM card.
In 2013, a European citizen was murdered in Lithuania. Faced with the threat against her, she had—just before her...