CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;FRA;FRE — 2 décembre 2024

.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 23 December 2024   FIRST SECTION Application no. 34442/23 Dušan KNEŽEVIĆ against Montenegro lodged on 6 September 2023 communicated on 2 December 2024 SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE The application concerns the applicant’s ill-treatment by unidentified members of the Special Police Unit on 17 October 2015 and the lack of an effective investigation in that regard. In 2018 and 2021 the civil courts found a violation of the substantive and procedural limb of Article 3 of the Convention, respectively, and awarded the applicant 7,058.33 euros (EUR) and EUR 3,000, respectively. On 21 March 2023 the Constitutional Court, following the applicant’s constitutional appeal, found a violation of both the substantive and procedural limb of Article 3. This decision was served on the applicant on 24 May 2023 (the editorial correction of the decision was served on 13 June 2023). The applicant complains under procedural limb of Article 3 of the Convention that there still has been no effective investigation into his ill-treatment. QUESTION TO THE PARTIES Having regard to the procedural protection from inhuman or degrading treatment (see Labita v. Italy [GC], no. 26772/95, § 131, ECHR 2000 ‑ IV), was the investigation in the present case by the domestic authorities in breach of Article 3 of the Convention (see Baranin and Vukčević v.   Montenegro , nos.   24655/18 and 24656/18, §§ 141-49, 11 March 2021; see also El-Masri v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [GC], no. 39630/09, §§ 182-85, ECHR 2012; Mocanu and Others v. Romania [GC], nos. 10865/09 and   2   others, §§ 316-25, ECHR 2014 (extracts)); and Cestaro v.   Italy , no.   6884/11, §§ 216-17, 7 April 2015)?