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European Court of Human Rights - Case-Law of Angelova and Illiev v. Bulgaria (2007) (English)
European Court of Human Rights - Case of Angelova and Illiev v. Bulgaria (2007)
In 1996, Mr. Angel Iliev died after being beaten and stabbed by a group of teenagers. The attackers were arrested within hours. They admitted that they had been looking for Roma to attack and expressed their hatred of Roma and other minorities. Five of the attackers were indicted for “hooliganism of exceptional cynicism and impudence”, but for nine years nothing further was done to bring them to justice. The European Court of Human Rights held that Bulgaria was in breach of its obligations to protect and prosecute human rights violations and that it was “completely unacceptable” that, being aware of the racist motives of the perpetrators, there had been a failure to bring the case to justice promptly.