Citaat | Parket bij de Hoge Raad 19 december 2014

Onder 4.20 Parket bij de Hoge Raad 19 december 2014

Een alinea uit Parket bij de Hoge Raad 19 december 2014, ECLI:NL:PHR:2014:2728.

53. The applicants contended that the right to remain silent and the right not to incriminate oneself are absolute rights and that to apply any form of direct compulsion to require an accused person to make incriminatory statements against his will of itself destroys the very essence of that right. The Court is unable to accept this. It is true, as pointed out by the applicants, that in all the cases to date in which “direct compulsion” was applied to require an actual or potential suspect to provide information which contributed, or might have contributed, to his conviction, the Court has found a violation of the applicant’s privilege against self-incrimination. It does not, however, follow that any direct compulsion will automatically result in a violation. (...)

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