The European Court of Human Rights condemns France for the detention of children
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned France on Thursday for human rights violations in the detention of a child from Georgia in 2020.
The child, an 8-year-old girl, entered France with her parents in 2019, with media reporting that the family had been held in an administrative detention center in the eastern Metz-Queuleu region some time later for two weeks.
The court ruled that a period of detention of 14 days was an “excessive” period and that a child of such a young age “cannot be considered to have sufficient understanding to understand the situation”, and that the situation placed her in a “particular vulnerability”. “The detention center in which the family has been placed adjoins a prison.
He also ordered France to pay a fine of 5,000 euros ($5,500) for “moral damage” to the minor.
The Strasbourg court further stated that the authorities of this detention had subjected the 8-year-old minor to treatment that exceeded the limit of severity provided for in Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which concerns the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment. .
The family was evicted on November 20, 2020.