The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned France on Thursday for the refusal of its courts to uphold the anti-Semitic nature of threatening remarks towards a woman. In the space of a few days in 2014, this woman then aged 36, had received no fewer than 26 emails from a man who introduced himself under the name B.
Myriam A. had requested a reclassification of the facts, emphasizing that she had been the victim not only of death threats but also of rape threats. The ECHR concluded that the authorities “disregarded their positive obligations arising from Articles 8 and 14 of the Convention consisting of providing effective and appropriate criminal protection against discriminatory - particularly destructive of fundamental rights - of the attacker’s attacker” France must also pay MyriAm A. 15,000 euros for moral damages and 3,840 euros for legal costs. The parties to the trial appealed the judgment. In a 2016 ruling, the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed the judgment, but without granting its request. The appeal was deemed inadmissible.