Published on 9 May 2022

SECOND SECTION

Application no. 19866/21 Safet SARAC against Denmark lodged on 8 April 2021 communicated on 19 April 2022

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The applicant is a Bosnian national. He entered Denmark when he was 6 years old. By a judgment which became final on 12 October 2020, the applicant was convicted of drug offences. He was sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment and expelled from Denmark with a life-long ban on returning.

The applicant complained that the order expelling him from Denmark was in violation of Article 8 of the Convention.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Having regard, in particular, to the fact that the applicant was sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment, would the order to expel him from the country with a permanent re-entry ban be in breach of Article 8 of the Convention (see, for example, Abdi v. Denmark , no. 41643/19, 14 September 2021 and Avci v. Denmark , no. 40240/19, 30 November 2021 [1] )?

[1] If final after the GC Panel meeting on 4 April 2022