nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200710-235439-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200710s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200710-235439-0 doi eng 342 23 Basilien-Gainche, Marie-Laure Author aut Ask the Dust Basilien-Gainche, Marie-Laure Verfassungsblog 2020-07-10 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Last week, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) condemned France for violating Article 3 of the Convention, by reducing asylum seekers to destitution in such an intensity that it constitutes a degrading treatment. It asserts that the French authorities failed to fulfill their obligations under national law against three of the plaintiffs. According to the Court, the national authorities must be held responsible for the conditions in which they left the asylum seekers, who lived for months on the street, without any resources, without any access to sanitary facilities, without any means of providing for their basic needs and in the constant anguish of being attacked and robbed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 asylum degrading treatment ECtHR Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/ask-the-dust/ raw object