CELEX: 62021CN0241
Language: en
Date: 2021-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-241/21: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Riigikohus (Estonia) lodged on 14 April 2021 — I.L. v Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet

21.6.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 242/14
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Riigikohus (Estonia) lodged on 14 April 2021 — I.L. v Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet
      (Case C-241/21)
      (2021/C 242/19)
      Language of the case: Estonian
      
         Referring court
      
      Riigikohus
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant: I.L.
      
         Respondent: Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet
      
         Question referred
      
      Is the first sentence of Article 15(1) of Directive 2008/115/EC (1) to be interpreted as meaning that Member States may keep in detention a third-country national in respect of whom there is a real risk that, while at liberty and prior to removal, he or she will commit a criminal offence, the investigation and punishment of which may substantially impede the execution of the removal process?
      
         (1)  Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (OJ 2008 L 348, p. 98, corrigendum OJ 2019 L 240, p. 17).