CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 15 décembre 2023

.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 8 January 2024   THIRD SECTION Application no. 60279/21 Lyubomir Darinov DANKOV against Bulgaria lodged on 9 December 2021 communicated on 15 December 2023 SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE The application concerns the applicant’s complaints under   Article 3 (he also relies on Article 13)   of the Convention that he was ill-treated by the police during his arrest on 14 August 2020 and subsequent 24-hour police custody on suspicion of molesting a minor on a public beach. In particular, he complains that his beating resulted in haematomas in the chest area and on both thighs, and that in a final decision of 1 October 2021 the prosecutor refused to open criminal proceedings into his related complaints. QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES 1.     Was the applicant subjected to ill-treatment during his arrest and police-custody in August 2020, in breach of   Article 3   of the Convention ( see, among others, Gäfgen v. German y [GC], no. 22978/05, §§ 87-93, ECHR   2010 and , mutatis mutandis , Anzhelo Georgiev and Others v.   Bulgari a , no.   51284/09, §§ 65-, 30 September 2014)?   2.     Was there an effective investigation into the applicant’s allegation of ill-treatment, as required by Article 3 (see, among others, El-Masri v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [GC], no. 39630/09, § 182-185, ECHR 2012)?