Questão jurídica principal
Whether the new preventive detention provisions could be applied retroactively to the defendant under the non-retroactivity principle.
Decisão extraída
The new detention regime applies retroactively if it is not harsher than the former law; for preventive detention, the non-retroactivity rule applies, but the new law was not stricter in this case.
Fundamentação extraída
Preventive detention is a sanction with penal character and falls within the scope of Art. 7 ECHR and Art. 15 ICCPR. The court held that retroactive application of Art. 64 StGB is permissible only if it does not result in a more severe solution than the former law. Here, the new law was not harsher regarding either ordering or release from detention.