The European Court of Human Rights last week ruled in favour of a Luxembourg journalist, Rob Roemen, and his lawyer, Marie Schmit, awarding each 4,000 euros in non-pecuniary damages.
According to a Luxembourg News report, in 1998, the Letzeburger Journal editor revealed in an article that Interior Minister, Michel Wolter had been the subject of a tax investigation over unpaid VAT bills during his time as president of the local tax federation.
Following a criminal complaint from the minister, police were dispatched to search the homes and offices of Mr Roemen and his lawyer for documents which they believed had been stolen from the tax authorities by an informer and passed to the Journal editor.
Delivering their judgement on Tuesday, the judges presiding over the case, who included Luxembourg's former Justice Minister, Marc Fischbach ruled that the European Convention of Human Rights had been violated in this case by the Luxembourg government, which had infringed on the rights of journalists to protect their sources.
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