Communicated on 4 September 2018

FOURTH SECTION

Application no. 21171/16 Gheorghe COBZARU against Romania lodged on 1 April 2016

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

On 25 June 2013 the Court adopted a judgment in the case of Gheorghe Cobzaru v. Romania (no. 6978/08) finding a violation of Article 2 of the Convention due to the killing of the applicant ’ s son by a police officer and the subsequent ineffective investigation – which was still pending at the time of the delivery of the Court ’ s judgment.

The current application concerns the alleged and prolonged lack of effectiveness of the investigation into the killing of the applicant ’ s son, which continued after the adoption of the Court ’ s judgment mentioned above and until its conclusion on 14 October 2015 by the judgment of the Bucharest County Court which confirmed t he prosecutor’s conclusion of 4 June 2015 that the killing had been justified.

QUESTION tO THE PARTIES

Having regard to the procedural protection of the right to life (see Salman v. Turkey [GC], no. 21986/93, § 104, ECHR 2000-VII, and Ciorcan and Others v. Romania , nos. 29414/09 and 44841/09, §§ 121-127, 27 January 2015), was the investigation concerning the killing of the applicant ’ s son, conducted by the domestic authorities between 25 June 2013 and 14 October 2015, in breach of Article 2 of the Convention?