The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled today that Georgia must pay €50,000 to the family of Zurab Vazagashvili, who was shot and killed by police under the United National Movement leadership back in 2006.
The court said that the right to life was violated and the investigation was delayed and ineffective.
The Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office opened the case in February 2015, which resulted in the arrest of 11 former police officers.
The ex-officials allegedly conducted premeditated murder motivated by revenge of Zurab Vazagashvili and Aleksandre Khubulow,” the Prosecutor’s Office stated then.
Before the case was opened, Vazagashvili’s father Yuri Vazagashvili was killed by an alleged bomb detonation while visiting his son’s grave in their native village in January 2015.