Het HvJEU stelt voorop dat handhaving van normen ter bescherming van de financiën van de EU strafrechtelijk kan plaatsvinden met voorbijgaan aan de verjaringsregelingen van de desbetreffende staat, maar met inachtneming van grondrechten van de betrokkenen. Vervolg en uitwerking van deze beslissing in HvJEU 5 december 2017.

Reducing the number of suicides in prison has been highlighted as an international priority. To date, however, studies examining prison suicides in Belgium are lacking. Therefore, adopting a retrospective record-based approach, we sought to investigate all suicides occurring in the whole Belgian prison estate during a 17-year period. The results underline the need for suicide prevention among prisoners in Belgium, and echo prior findings that restrictive preventive measures should be combined with psychosocial interventions in order to address the causes of prisoners being suicidal. Such strategies are ideally embedded within a comprehensive suicide prevention policy on a national level.