(Source: Court of Justice of the EU)
The systematic application by the competent authorities of the Member States of a single
quantitative criterion such as a minimum threshold of civilian casualties may exclude persons
genuinely in need of protection
CF and DN, two Afghan nationals from the province of Nangarhar (Afghanistan), submitted asylum
applications in Germany to the Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (Federal Office for
Migration and Refugees, Germany). Following the rejection of those asylum applications, the
applicants brought proceedings before the Verwaltungsgerichtshof Baden-Württemberg (Higher
Administrative Court, Baden-Württemberg, Germany), requesting that they be granted subsidiary
protection.
That court seeks clarification from the Court of Justice on the interpretation of Directive 2011/95 1
on the international protection of refugees. In essence, the Court has to consider what are the
criteria to be applied for the purposes of granting subsidiary protection in cases of a serious and
individual threat to a civilian’s life or person by reason of ‘indiscriminate violence in situations of
armed conflict’.
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