The European Court of Human Rights found Moldova guilty in a news case. The state is to pay €15,000 damages and over €2,000 court costs to plaintiff Lidia Mudric, 72, who complained to the court that the authorities didn’t ensure her protection of her former husband, who beat her. She also complained about discrimination, IPN reports.

According to the information published on the official website of the Jurists for Human Rights, which offered legal advice to the woman, the plaintiff had been ill-treated by her husband for over a year. Three courts banned the man from approaching the woman, but the decisions weren’t implemented. The man wasn’t penalized because he was allegedly mentally ill, but he wasn’t put on forced treatment either.

In the period, the woman and her lawyer filed complaints to the police commissariat, the prosecutor’s office and other authorities, seeking protection for the woman and punishment for her former husband, but all in vain. The woman complained that the police had a discriminatory attitude towards a woman who was subject to domestic violence.

The ECHR ruled that the Moldovan authorities tolerated repeatedly a case of violence and their acts showed a discriminatory attitude towards the plaintiff, also because they didn’t take the domestic violence seriously.