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The article recalls the event of 27 July 2006, when Soile Lautsi, an Italian citizen, on behalf of herself and her two minor children Dataico and Sami Albertin, filed a complaint against the Italian Republic with the European Court of Human Rights. Soile Lautsi alleged that the presence of a crucifix in the classrooms of the school her children attended contravenes the idea of freedom of belief and religion and violates her right to raise and teach her children in accordance with her own religious and philosophical convictions (her secular worldview). As the judgment of the Chamber of the Court of 3 November 2009 caused controversy not only in Italy but also in many European countries, governments of many countries, NGOs and members of the European Parliament joined the proceedings before the Court as interveners as a third party.