CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 3 mai 2022

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s379BC09C { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s10950C61 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; text-align:justify } .s5E1364CA { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt } .s339D85E6 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s665E407E { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s65E06E64 { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } Published on 23 May 2022   SECOND SECTION Application no. 24565/19 Victor PRIDOROJNÎI against the Republic of Moldova lodged on 2 May 2019 communicated on 3 May 2022 SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE The application concerns the applicant’s alleged ill-treatment while in detention and the failure to carry out an effective investigation into his allegation of ill-treatment. The applicant and two other persons were arrested and pressured to confess to a crime which he had not committed. The applicant was threatened with persecution of his family members and was beaten up by the police. A medical certificate from a hospital issued on the day of his arrest confirmed injuries on his face, as well as an ecchymosis on his left arm and excoriations on both wrists. According to a report by a surgeon who examined the applicant on the same day, the applicant had been brought to the hospital by the police; he explained that he had been caused the injuries as a result of ill-treatment by the police. The prosecution (the same subdivision which was responsible for the case against the applicant) refused five times to open a criminal investigation into the complaints of ill-treatment made by the three accused, each time an investigating judge annulling the decisions as taken after an insufficient investigation. The applicant complains of a breach of Article 3 under its substantive and procedural limbs as a result of his ill-treatment by the police and the failure to carry out an effective investigation.   QUESTION TO THE PARTIES Has there been a violation of Article 3 of the Convention? In particular, was the applicant ill-treated while in detention? Did the authorities carry out an effective investigation into his allegation of ill-treatment? ( Bouyid v.   Belgium [GC], no. 23380/09, §§ 81-134, ECHR 2015; and Trocin v. the Republic of Moldova , no. 23847/19, §§ 40-63, 16 March 2021)