VAZAGASHVILI AND SHANAVA v. GEORGIA

THIRD SECTIONApplication no. 50375/07Yuri VAZAGASHVILI and Tsiala SHANAVAagainst Georgialodged on 20 October 2007STATEMENT OF FACTS 1.  The applicants, Mr Yuri Vazagashvili (“the first applicant”) and Mrs Tsiala Shanava (“the second applicant”), are Georgian nationals, who were born in 1953 and live in Tbilisi. They are represented before the Court by Mr G. Mosiashvili, Mr M. Jangirashvili and Ms I. Tchkadua, lawyers practising in Tbilisi.2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.3.  On 2 May 2006, at around 9:30 a.m., Mr Zurab Vazagashvili, the applicants’ son, aged 22, and his friend Mr A. Kh.-ovi, aged 25, were shot dead by police as they were driving in Mr Vazagashvili’s car in a street of Tbilisi.4.  According to the case materials, at least fifty police officers, including senior officials from the Criminal Police Department of the Mini …