The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday fined Hungary 40,000 euros for the death of a Syrian refugee in 2016, who was harassed by Hungarian border guards as he attempted to cross the Tisza River from Serbia.
Strasbourg has ruled in favor of the victim’s family, who together with his brother and another Syrian refugee family, in which there were three minors, tried to cross into Hungary in a small boat chartered by smugglers.
The lawsuit claims that the Hungarian border guards sought by all means to return them to Serbian territory and for this purpose used everything from stones to tear gas, and even whipping the dogs when they disembarked.
It was at that moment that the victim drowned trying to swim back to the Serbian coast, says the victim’s brother. A version denied by Hungary, which will have to pay 34,000 euros in damages and another 5,600 euros in legal costs.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
