26By contrast, as the Court has clarified, the harm defined in Article 15(c) of that directive, consisting of a ‘serious and individual threat to [the applicant’s] life or person’ covers a ‘more general’ risk of harm than those referred to in Article 15(a) and (b). Reference is thus made, more generally, to a ‘threat to a civilian’s life or person’ rather than to specific acts of violence. Furthermore, that threat is inherent in a general situation of armed conflict, giving rise to ‘indiscriminate violence’, which implies that it may extend to people irrespective of their personal circumstances (judgment of 17 February 2009, Elgafaji, C‑465/07, EU:C:2009:94, paragraphs 33 and 34).
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