Vazagashvili and Shanava v. Georgia

Information Note on the Court’s case-law 231July 2019Vazagashvili and Shanava v. Georgia - 50375/07Judgment 18.7.2019 [Section V]Article 2Article 2-1Effective investigationManifest disproportion between seriousness of act committed by State agents and punishment imposed: violationFacts – On 2 May 2006 the applicants’ son was shot dead by the police. The initial investigation into his death was discontinued. The investigation was subsequently reopened and in 2015 five high-ranking officers were convicted of either double aggravated murder or malfeasance or perverting the course of justice. It was established that the whole police operation in issue had been mounted on the basis of the documents fabricated by a senior officer with the sole aim of assassinating the passengers of the applicants’ son’s car and thus taking a personal revenge against one of them.Law – Article 2 (procedural aspe …