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Le camouflet des juges européens

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Number
27282
Author
Chicon, Emmanuel
Date
14 juin 2004
Ymd
20040614
Title
Le camouflet des juges européens
Subtitle
La Cour européenne des droits de l'homme a condamné, le 8 juin, l'État français pour sa lenteur à traiter les plaintes visant l'ecclésiastique rwandais Munyeshyaka.
Size
19601 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
Type
Article de journal
Language
FR
Abstract
Yvonne Mutimura, a Rwandan national living in Castres (Tarn), appealed to the Strasbourg Court in February 1999, alleging that her complaint lodged with the French courts in July 1995 against one of her compatriots, Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, also a refugee in France, "had not been dealt with within a reasonable time and had no recourse". On June 8, the ECHR could only find that the French State had violated Articles 6 (right to a trial within a reasonable time) and 13 (right to an effective remedy) of the European Convention, and that the "complexity" of the case, the main argument put forward by the French government, "is not sufficient in itself to justify the length of the proceedings". The fact remains that such a decision is devoid of enforceability.