On Thursday, 24 April, the European Court of Human Rights published a unanimous ruling in which it condemns France for failing to protect three minors who had reported rape.
In all three cases, the judges conclude that Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) and Article 8 (right to privacy) of the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated.
The court finds that the [French] courts did not take the circumstances of the case—such as the consumption of...