The European Court of Human Rights has now obliged the Georgian police to pay 35,000 euros in case of murdered lecturer at Ilia State University. According to the court, the security authorities of Georgia are not doing enough to prevent gender-based discrimination.

Georgia’s police have not done enough to protect a woman from the deadly violence of her ex-partner, according to the European Court of Human Rights. The Strasbourg court announced that the inaction of the police could be understood as a systemic failure. There was an urgent need to investigate whether gender-based discrimination was behind the failure. Georgia now has to pay the mother of those killed 35,000 euros in compensation. (File number 33056/17)

In the case, a woman was repeatedly the victim of her abusive partner. She informed the police, but they did not initiate any investigations or take any punitive measures against the man. The police spoke to the woman about a minor family dispute.

After the separation, the man continued to threaten the woman, appearing at her workplace with a hand grenade, for example. Instead of investigating, the police suggested that the man could be beaten by the woman’s brothers. Finally, the man shot his ex-partner.

The court found that the police had received repeated reports of the violence. The man himself had admitted to threatening the woman with death. The police should therefore have known about the imminent danger to the woman. Also because they did not conduct sufficient investigations after death, the Georgian authorities violated the right to life and the prohibition of discrimination to which they are bound by the European Convention on Human Rights, the court said.