Published on 11 April 2022

SECOND SECTION

Application no. 25325/16 Veaceslav MALAI against the Republic of Moldova lodged on 28 April 2016 communicated on

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns the alleged ineffective investigation into the applicant’s wife’s (G.) death as a result of a road traffic incident in 2012. The criminal investigation was repeatedly discontinued by the prosecutor on the ground that G. was responsible for the accident and the applicant’s appeals were repeatedly upheld on the ground that the investigation had been unilateral and incomplete, including four years after the events. The applicant complains of a violation of his rights under Article 2 of the Convention.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Having regard to the procedural protection of the right to life (see paragraph 104 of Salman v. Turkey [GC], no. 21986/93, ECHR 2000-VII), was the investigation into G.’s death as a result of a road traffic incident by the domestic authorities in breach of Article 2 of the Convention ( Nicolae Virgiliu Tănase v. Romania [GC], no. 41720/13, §§ 157-71, 25 June 2019; Ciobanu v. the Republic of Moldova , no. 62578/09, 24 February 2015)?