CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 24 juin 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 } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } Published on 11 July 2022   FIRST SECTION Application no. 35519/21 Danijel ZINAIĆ against Croatia lodged on 5 July 2021 communicated on 24 June 2022 SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE The application concerns the applicant’s right not to be tried or punished twice for the same offence. On 2 March 2017 the applicant was found guilty and fined EUR 100 in minor-offence proceedings of disturbing public peace and order by hitting a certain M.P. with a fist in the head on 17 August 2015 in Omišalj. Subsequently, on 5 March 2020 the Rijeka Municipal Court found the applicant guilty in criminal proceedings and sentenced him to a four months’ suspended prison sentence of causing a bodily injury to M.P. by hitting him with a fist in the head on 17 August 2015 in Omišalj. The applicant complains that he has been convicted twice for the same offence, contrary to Article 4 of Protocol No. 7 to the Convention. QUESTION TO THE PARTIES Has the applicant been convicted twice for the same offence in the territory of the respondent State, as prohibited by Article   4 §   1 of Protocol No.   7 (see Maresti v. Croatia , no. 55759/0725 June 2009; and Urh v. Croatia [Committee], no. 60130/16, 13 January 2022)?