ELIAURI AND OTHERS v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 9 November 2015 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 74019/12Paul ELIAURI and othersagainst Georgialodged on 14 November 2012STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  A list of the applicants is set out in the appendix. All applicants were represented before the Court by Grégory Thuan Dit Dieudonne, a lawyer practicing in Strasbourg.2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.3.  In 1996-97, while serving the mandatory military service at the Lilo border guards unit in Tbilisi, all applicants developed serious radiation lesions due to exposure, without their knowledge, to a radioactive substance over the course of a relatively long period (between sixty and three hundred days). Subsequently the applicants were provided with free emergency medical treatment for their radiation lesions, including the treatment at different hospitals in France, Germany, and …