Overview

• The court rejected claims for lost earnings by Marjolein Storimans and for medical and rehabilitation costs for Jeroen Akkermans due to a lack of direct causal proof.
• Judges awarded €10,000 to Storimans’s widow and about €13,000 to Akkermans for non‑pecuniary harm.
• The judgment attributes the Gori attack to a Russian Iskander rocket with cluster munitions, aligning with earlier Dutch findings.
• The ECHR faulted Russia for failing to conduct an adequate investigation into the strike that killed Storimans and injured Akkermans.
• Execution of the ruling remains doubtful as Russia often refuses ECHR payments and left the Council of Europe in 2022, though responsibility for pre‑exit violations still applies.