Author: European Roma Rights Center
The European Court of Human Rights yesterday delivered a landmark of Human Rights yesterday delivered a landmark judgment in the case of Secic v. Croatia, concerning the lack of a proper investigation carried out by the Croatian authorities into a racially-motivated attack on a Romani man.
The Court held that the Croatian authorities failed to conduct a sufficiently thorough and expeditious investigation as well as examine the possible racial motives behind the assault.
The judgment, the first in which the Court has elaborated on the obligations of states in cases of racially-motivated attacks perpetrated by private individuals, is a call for the swift prosecution of hate crime at a time when such attacks occur with heightened frequency throughout Europe.
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