Communicated on 12 February 2021 Published on 1 March 2021

FOURTH SECTION

Application no. 8757/20 Karim AZZAQUI against the Netherlands lodged on 10 February 2020

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns the decision to withdraw the applicant ’ s residence permit and to impose a ten-year entry ban on him because of a series of criminal convictions. This decision was taken in 2018 and was upheld by the national courts.

The applicant is a Moroccan national born in 1972 who entered the Netherlands in 1982. Apart from a short period in 1990, he held a residence permit allowing him to stay in the Netherlands until the impugned decision. The applicant is and has been subjected to an order for his confinement in a custodial clinic ( terbeschikkingstelling met bevel tot verpleging van overheidswege ) since this was imposed on him by the Arnhem Regional Court in 1996.

QUESTION S TO THE PARTIES

Has there been a violation of the applicant ’ s right to respect for his private life contrary to Article 8 of the Convention?

In particular, have the domestic courts, when conducting the Article 8 proportionality assessment, carefully examined the facts, applied the human rights standards consistently with the Convention and its case-law, and adequately balanced the applicant ’ s personal interests against the general public interest ( Ndidi v. United Kingdom , no. 41215/14, § 76, 14 September 2017)?