GHEORGHE COBZARU v. ROMANIA - 21171/16 (Judgment : Right to life : Fourth Section Committee)

The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:

��������� Faris Vehabović, President, ��������� Iulia Antoanella Motoc, ��������� Carlo Ranzoni, judges, and Ilse Freiwirth, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application against Romania lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) by a Romanian national, Mr Gheorghe Cobzaru (�the applicant�), on 1 April 2016;

the decision to give notice to the Romanian Government (�the Government�) of the complaint concerning the respondent State�s failure to carry out an effective official investigation into the death of the applicant�s son;

The application concerns the alleged ineffectiveness of the investigation into the killing of the applicant�s son, as continued after the adoption of the Court�s judgment of 25 June 2013 in the case of Gheorghe Cobzaru v. Romania (no. 6978/08), in which a breach of Article 2 of the Convention had been found, and concluded by a judgment of the Bucharest County of 25 June 2013 holding that in the particular circumstances of the case the killing had been justified.