CEDH · PRESS;FORTHCOMINGJUDGMENTS;ENG — 21 septembre 2010

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Spain (application no 12050/04) in a public hearing on Tuesday 28 September 2010 at 11 a.m. - local time - in the Human Rights Building, Strasbourg.   The press releases and the text of the judgment will be available after the hearing on the Court’s Internet site ( www.echr.coe.int ).     Principal facts   Apostolos Ioannis Mangouras was formerly the captain of the ship Prestige , which in November 2002, while sailing off the Spanish coast, discharged the 70,000 tonnes of fuel oil it was carrying into the Atlantic Ocean when its hull sprang a leak.   The oil spill caused an ecological disaster whose effects on marine flora and fauna lasted for several months and spread as far as the French coast.   A criminal investigation was opened and the applicant was remanded in custody with the possibility of release on bail of three million euros (EUR).   Mr Mangouras was detained for 83 days and granted provisional release when his bail was paid by the shipowner’s insurers.   The Spanish authorities later authorised the applicant’s return to Greece, on condition that the Greek authorities enforced compliance with the periodic supervision to which he had been subject in Spain. As a result, he must report every two weeks to a police station. The criminal proceedings against him are still pending.     Complaints and procedure   Relying on Article 5 § 3 (right to liberty and security) of the European Convention on Human Rights, the applicant alleged, in particular, that the sum set for bail in his case had been excessive and had been fixed without his personal circumstances being taken into consideration. The application was lodged with the European Court of Human Rights on 25 March 2004. In a judgment of 8 January 2009 , the Court held unanimously that there had been no violation of Article 5 § 3. On 5 June 2009 the case was referred to the Grand Chamber at the applicant’s request. A Grand Chamber hearing took place in public in the Human Rights Building in Strasbourg on 23 September 2009. On 28 September 2010 the Grand Chamber will deliver its judgment, which will be final. *** The press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court. Decisions, judgments and further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site . To receive the Court’s press releases, you can subscribe to the Court’s RSS feeds . ***   Press contacts [email protected] / +33 3 90 21 42 08   Céline Menu-Lange (tel: + 33 3 90 21 58 77) Emma Hellyer (tel: +33 3 90 21 42 15) Tracey Turner-Tretz (tel: + 33 3 88 41 35 30) Kristina Pencheva-Malinowski (tel: + 33 3 88 41 35 70) Frédéric Dolt (tel: + 33 3 90 21 53 39) Nina Salomon (tel: + 33 3 90 21 49 79)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.