BOUYID v. BELGIUM JUDGMENT
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In the case of Bouyid v. Belgium,
The European Court of Human Rights, sitting as a Grand Chamber
composed of:
Dean Spielmann, President,
Guido Raimondi,
Isabelle Berro,
Alvina Gyulumyan,
Ledi Bianku,
Nona Tsotsoria,
Nebojša Vučinić,
Vincent A. De Gaetano,
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque,
Erik Møse,
Helen Keller,
Paul Lemmens,
Paul Mahoney,
Krzysztof Wojtyczek,
Faris Vehabović,
Egidijus Kūris,
Iulia Motoc, judges,
and Johan Callewaert, Deputy Grand Chamber Registrar,
Having deliberated in private on 8 October 2014 and 24 June 2015,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on the lastmentioned date:
PROCEDURE
1. The case originated in an application (no. 23380/09) against the
Kingdom of Belgium, lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
(“the Convention”) by two Belgian nationals, Mr Saïd Bouyid (“the first
applicant”) and Mr Mohamed Bouyid (“the second applicant”), on 28 April
2009.
2. The applicants were represented by Mr C. Marchand and
Mr Z. Chihaoui, lawyers practising in Brussels. The Belgian Government
(“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr M. Tysebaert,
Senior Adviser, Federal Justice Department.
3. Alleging, in particular, that they were both slapped by police officers
while they were in a police station, the applicants complained of degrading
treatment and argued that they were victims of a violation of Article 3.
4. The application was allocated to the Fifth Section of the Court
(Rule 52 § 1 of the Rules of Court). In a judgment delivered on