Dictum of the day, or on Children of a Lesser God

Refugees, migrants and foreign nationals are the first to be singled out in a dehumanised and selfish society. Their situation is even worse when they are seriously ill. They become pariahs whom Governments want to get rid of as quickly as possible. It is a sad coincidence that in the present case the Grand Chamber decided, on the World Day of the Sick, to abandon these women and men to a certain, early and painful death alone and far away. I cannot desert those sons of a lesser God who, on their forced path to death, have no one to plead for them.

S.J. v. Belgium, app. no. 70055/10, 19 March 2015, Dissenting opinion of judge Pinto de Albuquerque, para. 12.