Communicated on 12 November 2019

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 36734/18 Georgios SAMARAS against Greece lodged on 27 July 2018

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns the alleged ill-treatment of the applicant by policemen and deficiencies in the investigation conducted following the incident.

The applicant claims that he was caught red-handed while he was exiting a pharmacy to which he had broken in, and that he was brutally beaten up by four policemen. When driven to the police station, these policemen together with other two continued beating him up.

The investigation conducted by the public prosecutor ’ s office concluded that the violence used by the policemen was necessary in order to arrest and restrain the applicant who had tried to escape.

QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES

1. Has the applicant been subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment at the hands of the police, in breach of the substantive limb of Article 3 of the Convention?

2. Was the investigation into the applicant ’ s allegations of ill-treatment by the domestic authorities in the present case in breach of the procedural limb of Article 3 of the Convention?