On Thursday 13 March, the European Court of Human Rights announced that it had found that there had been violations of the right to life and a failure to comply with the obligation to investigate in a case concerning the violence between pro-Maidan and anti-Maidan forces in Odessa on 2 May 2014, which led to the burning down of the Trade Union Building, where 42 people lost their lives.
The Court found that “the authorities failed to do everything that could reasonably be expected of them” to put an end to the outbursts and adopt relief measures as quickly as possible, and also criticised the failure to conduct an effective investigation into the events.
It also found a violation of an applicant’s right to respect for private and family life due to the delay in returning her father’s body for burial.
Link to the judgment: https://aeur.eu/f/fx7 (Original version in French by Véronique Leblanc)