EIT: Italian viranomaiset liian passiivisia isän ja lapsen tapaamisten toteuttamisessa: EIS 8 artiklan loukkaus

Euroopan ihmisoikeustuomioistuin (EIT) katsoi eilen julkaistussa tuomiossaan, että Italian viranomaiset eivät riittävällä tavalla olleet tukeneet ja pyrkineet toteuttamaan isän ja lapsen välisiä tapaamisia, vaan menettely oli ollut mekaanista ja tehotonta. Italian katsottiin loukanneen oikeutta perhe-elämän suojaan (EIS 8 artikla).

EIT:n lehdistötiedotteesta:

In [a] Chamber judgment in the case of Giorgioni v. Italy (application no. 43299/12) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been:

a violation of Article 8 (right to respect for family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The case concerned the effectiveness of the measures taken by the Italian authorities to ensure that a father could exercise fully his contact rights in respect of his son despite a situation of conflict with the child’s mother.

The Court found in particular that in placing reliance on a series of automatic and stereotyped measures such as successive requests for information and monitoring of the family by the social services, in order to secure the exercise of the father’s contact rights in respect of his child, the domestic courts had not taken the appropriate measures to make the full exercise of those rights possible and to establish a meaningful relationship between Mr Giorgioni and his child.

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