European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), Sitting As a Chamber Composed Of: Dean Spielmann, President, Elisabet Fura, Boštjan M
FIFTH SECTION CASE OF RANGELOV v. GERMANY (Application no. 5123/07) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 22 March 2012 This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision. RANGELOV v. GERMANY JUDGMENT 1 In the case of Rangelov v. Germany, The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Dean Spielmann, President, Elisabet Fura, Boštjan M. Zupančič, Mark Villiger, Ganna Yudkivska, Angelika Nußberger, André Potocki, judges, and Claudia Westerdiek, Section Registrar, Having deliberated in private on 21 February 2012, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date: PROCEDURE 1. The case originated in an application (no. 5123/07) against the Federal Republic of Germany lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Bulgarian national, Mr Georgiev Cvetan Rangelov (“the applicant”), on 12 October 2004. 2. The applicant, who had been granted legal aid, was initially represented by Ms U. Groos and subsequently by Mr J. Oelbermann, both lawyers practising in Berlin. The German Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agents, Mrs A. Wittling-Vogel, Ministerialdirigentin, and Mr H.-J. Behrens, Ministerialrat, of the Federal Ministry of Justice. 3. The applicant alleged that the execution of the preventive detention order against him had violated Articles 5 § 1 and 14 of the Convention because in view of his foreign nationality, he had been refused important measures putting him in a position to prove that he was no longer dangerous to the public.
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