Lingurar v. Romania, dec., No. 48474/14, ECtHR (Fourth Section Committee), 16 April 2019

Prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment. Violent behavior by police officers driven by ethnic or racial biases. Prohibition of discrimination. Ethnic profiling. 

Art. 3 ECHR 
Art. 14 ECHR

1. The violent behavior by police officers during a raid against the local Roma community constitutes inhuman or degrading treatment pursuant to Art. 3 ECHR (case in which the police had raided a house and some members of the family, completely unrelated to the commission of crimes, had suffered injuries worthy of medical care).
2. The planning and execution of a police raid against the Roma community – justified on the basis of an alleged connection between ethnicity and criminal behavior – amount to racial profiling, contrary to the prohibition of discrimination enshrined in Art. 14 ECHR.