Published on 17 October 2022

SECOND SECTION

Application no. 8793/19 Hristijan RIPILOSKI against North Macedonia lodged on 8 February 2019 communicated on 29 September 2022

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns the applicant’s right not to be tried or punished twice for the same offence.

In criminal proceedings the applicant was found guilty of bodily injury and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, suspended for one year. The domestic courts found that in a fight he had hit a certain D.P. on the back of his head and caused him a bodily injury.

In minor-offence proceedings regarding the same incident the applicant was found guilty of causing and participating in a fight and was imposed a fine of 300 euros (EUR).

The applicant, relying on Article 6 of the Convention, complains that he has been convicted twice for the same offence.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Has the applicant been convicted twice for the same offence in the territory of the respondent State, as prohibited by Article 4 § 1 of Protocol No. 7 to the Convention (see Sergey Zolotukhin v. Russia [GC], no. 14939/03, §§ 52 et seq., ECHR 2009, and Maresti v. Croatia , no. 55759/07, §§ 55-69, 25 June 2009)?