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Published: January 17, 2024
The European Court of Human Rights ruled against Greece in a case of shooting a Syrian man during a Coast Guard chase of a migrant boat near a Greek island about a decade ago.
In a judgment announced today, Tuesday, a court in Strasbourg, France, ordered Greece to pay $87,000 as compensation to the wife and children of Bilal Tallou, who died in December 2015, more than a year after being shot in the head during the Greek Coast Guard's pursuit of the boat he was on.
The court said Greece failed to provide an adequate legal framework regarding the potential lethal use of firearms during Coast Guard operations and violated the right to life under the European Convention on Human Rights.
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