Published on 9 May 2022
SECOND SECTION
Application no. 9588/21
Martin Treesh WINTHER
against Denmark
lodged on 28 January 2021
communicated on 19 April 2022
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The applicant is a Syrian national. He entered Denmark at the age of 20. By a final Supreme Court judgment of 14 August 2020, the applicant was convicted of, inter alia, assault with aggravating circumstances. He was sentenced to 8 months’ imprisonment and expelled from Denmark with a 6‑year re‑entry ban. He had a partner and two children in Denmark.
The applicant complained that the order expelling him from Denmark was in violation of Article 8 of the Convention.
QUESTION TO THE PARTIES
Having regard, in particular, to the fact that the applicant was sentenced to 8 months’ imprisonment, would the order to expel him from the country with a 6-year re-entry ban be in breach of Article 8 of the Convention (see, for example, Veljkovic-Jukic v. Switzerland, no. 59534/14, 21 July 2020)?