Nicosia, Cyprus – Cypriot bodies for conducting laws failed to live with their obligation to thoroughly and efficiently investigate the British teenager claims she was raped by gang Group of Israelis, while on vacation for 2019. year in the popular resort, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled on Thursday.
In his solution published on Thursday, the Court determined a certain weight on the failure of the authorities to determine whether the woman – who was 18 at the time of alleged rape – ever agreed to sex with some of the suspects.
According to the verdict, the woman said the authorities to reject the proposal of sex with several partners. However, the suspects persisted in entering the hotel room where the alleged rape took place, ignoring the objections to leave.
Although the woman had sex with Israeli’s friend of suspects in that hotel room, the Court said that investigators did not determine whether the suspects secured her consent. According to the testimony, some of them assumed just would be because of her previous behavior.
The Court said that investigators were not taken into account the female consent in the light of the testimony that consumed alcohol before alleged rape and that traces of cocaine were found in its urine.
Moreover, the police and investigators took the suspects that there was no rape “by Lika”, despite the testimony that her Israeli partner “said he would agree to arrange for his friends to have sex” with her.
This agreed what the Court described as a series of stem investigators in the initial state of investigation, from a limited search for physical evidence such as fingerprints in the hotel room to failure.
“The Court notes that this case reveals certain biases related to the Cyprus women who have hampered the applicant’s rights to create the trust of victims in despite the existence of a satisfactory legislative framework,” Judgment said.
The case of July, 2019. amounted to titles in Cyprus, Britain and Israel when all 12 suspects were released without compensation after the woman withdrew rape requests. Cyprus Lawyer decided not to continue legal proceedings against suspects, while the woman was subsequently declared guilty On the charge of public misleading and sentenced to a four-month suspended prison term.
In the decision on the lower court, the referee said that the woman did not tell the truth and tried to deceive the court with “evasive” statements. He said that the woman recognized the investigators to invent the claims because he “arrived” after the knowledge that some of the Israelites saw that he had consensual sex with his mobile phones.
2022. Years The Supreme Court in Cyprus rolled over Female belief, referring to the other reasons that she did not have a lawyer present when the police have fully questioned her and that the lower court misunderstood evidence, prejudice against her.
The ECHR decision stated that the discussion in its argument was given the terms of the female issue, “there is a strength” that “long and repeated interviews” encouraged to encourage rape allegations.
Director of Justice abroad Michael Polak, who advocated the woman in Cyprus and the ECHR, called the ruling decision on sights for victims of sexual violence. “
“This verdict amplifies the fundamental principle to state sexual violence must be researched thoroughly and fairly, without institutional obstruction,” he said.
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2025-02-27 13:50:00
