Religion – Weltanschauung – Recht [ RWR ]

In its decision in the case of Perelman v. Germany (application no. 32745/17) the European Court of Human Rights has unanimously declared the application inadmissible. The decision is final. The case concerned the complaint by a French couple that, on moving to Germany and declaring to the authorities that their religion was “Mosaic”, they were considered members of the Frankfurt Jewish community without their consent. The applicant couple, Mr and Mrs Perelman, were subsequently charged a church tax, despite the fact that they were unwilling to join a community whose orthodoxy contrasted with their own liberal beliefs. They relied on Article 9 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion) and Article 11 (freedom of assembly and association) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court found the couple’s complaint inadmissible for failure to exhaust domestic remedies because they still have an appeal pending before the Federal Constitutional Court. Den Rest des Beitrags lesen

The applicants, Bluma and Alain Perelman, are French nationals who were born in 1947 and live in Frankfurt a.M. (Germany). The case concerns their complaint that they were considered members of the Frankfurt Jewish community without their consent. Den Rest des Beitrags lesen