FIRST SECTION

Application no. 5676/13 Mijo GOJEVIĆ-ZRNIĆ and others against Croatia lodged on 31 December 2012

STATEMENT OF FACTS

A list of the applicants is set out in the appendix.

The circumstances of the case

The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.

On 30 January 1993 the applicants ’ mother was killed in the village of Kijevo in Croatia, then occupied by Serbian paramilitary forces.

COMPLAINT

The applicants complain that the criminal law mechanisms as applied in the case concerning the killings of their mother have not met the standards of the procedural aspect of Article 2 of the Convention.

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QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Having regard to the procedural protection of the right to life, was the manner in which the criminal law mechanisms have been applied in the present case by the domestic authorities in breach of Article 2 of the Convention?

The Government are invited to submit copies of all case files and other documents concerning the killing of the applicants ’ mother.

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