The Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights to which the cases Macagnino and Marzo v. Italy (nos. 61799/15 and 62690/15) and Cavallotti and Others v. Italy (nos. 29614/16 and 3 others), had been allocated has relinquished jurisdiction in favour of the Grand Chamber of the Court.

The cases concern confiscations of assets, known as “preventive confiscations” in Italian law, which are measures taken in respect of individuals who, on account of their behaviour and lifestyle and on the basis of factual evidence, may be regarded as habitually living, even in part, on the proceeds of crime (on grounds of “ordinary dangerousness”), and in respect of individuals suspected, inter alia, of membership of a mafia-type organisation (on grounds of “special dangerousness”).

Full press release