Judgment Kotilainen and Others v. Finland - failure to protect the lives of school shooting victims
(World News Cezch Republic)

issued by the Registrar of the Court ECHR 258 (2020) 17.09.2020 Finnish authorities failed to take the precautionary measure of seizing a student`s weapon before a school shooting The case of Kotilainen and Others v. Finland(application no. 62439/12) concerned complaints about failures by the authorities to protect the lives of the victims of the 2008 school shooting in the town of Kauhajoki, in which 10 people were killed. In today`s Chamberjudgment1in the case the European Court of Human Rights held that there had been, bysix votes to one,a violation of Article 2 (right to life) of the European Convention on Human Rights owing to the authorities` failure to observe their duty of diligence...