11 minutes agoFather sues Croatia, forbidden to see 13-year-old son
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Croatia has violated the right to respect family life against a father who has been unable to associate and meet with his son who lives with his mother for nearly 13 years. The Strasbourg court found that three decisions [...]
The Strasbourg court found that three court rulings regulating the contact of Stjepan Jurisic and his son had not been fully fulfilled by Croatian authorities for 13 years, the Croatian representative's office before the ECHR announced.
They added that the completion process had continued for more than nine years and that authorities had not taken the necessary steps to maintain family ties between researchers and his son, resulting in the child's refusal to contact his father and his complete alienation from his father.
Despite the fact that authorities were facing a difficult family situation in which parents clashed with each other, the court considers that the lack of co-operation between parents does not facilitate the situation from its positive obligations under the Convention on Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms.
Also, although criminal procedures against the mother have been filed to prevent father-children's contact, authorities have not taken effective steps to prevent this, especially given the need for urgent action, the statement said.
In view of all of this and in light of the decision by the Croatian Constitutional Court, which had earlier concluded that the seeker had been violated because of the unreasonable length of final procedures, the European Court finally demands that the Jurischis be paid 15,000 euros in connection with non-rich damage, as well as 1,500 euros, in terms of the costs of breaking rights in family life.
