would correspond to the examination of a possible adversarial case in the event that there should be one. The Court has already indicated that a ruling on the merits is carried out through a judgment within the proceeding of an adversarial case submitted before the Court and not through a provisional measures proceeding.8 In addition to this, the Court finds that those allegations do not meet the requirements for the adoption of provisional measures as set forth in Article 6(2) of the Convention. 15. Consequently, for the analysis of this request for provisional measures, the Court will not take those allegations into account due to the impossibility of considering elements directly related with the merits of this case, as indicated previously. b) Existence of alleged acts of harassment and attacks against life and personal integrity. 16. The Inter-American Commission has also based its request for provisional measures on the alleged existence of threats, harassment, and attacks on the life and personal integrity of Mr. Galdámez Álvarez, his companion, and his children, who, starting in July of 2009, have supposedly received threats on several occasions, including death threats, and have been subjected to attacks and surveillance (supra Having Seen 2(f)). 17. The Court observes that, according to the information provided by the Commission, which has not been contested by the State, in August of 2009, Mr. Galdámez Álvarez began receiving text messages on his cellular phone containing death threats, allegedly as a result of his visit to the Ex-President of Honduras during his stay in Nicaragua and to the reporting he had done on that visit for Radio Globo. Likewise, at the beginning of the month of September 2009, two unknown individuals approached two of Mr. Galdámez Álvarez’ children and threatened them with a gun, telling them to tell their father that he had better “shut up.” During the time Mr. Galdámez Álvarez was in the Brazilian Embassy - starting on September 21, 2009 - to cover the arrival of the former president of Honduras, he apparently received phone calls from unknown numbers repeating the warning to “shut up or die." Starting on December 21, 2009, when Mr. Galdámez left the Brazilian Embassy, he began to be subjected to surveillance by two vehicles, one of which supposedly also watching his house. 18. The Tribunal has been informed that the threats and attacks have continued during this year. In that sense, according to information submitted by the InterAmerican Commission, during the year 2010, Mr. Galdámez received numerous text messages, insults, and threats from identified cell phone numbers. The Inter-American Commission did not specify nor itemize the dates on which those messages were received. However, neither has the State contested that information or denied it. Nevertheless, the Commission specified that on the day following the death of journalists David Meza, which took place on March 11, 2010, Mr. Galdámez Álvarez received a message telling him he would “be next;" On September 14, 2010, after concluding his news broadcast on Canal Globo, Mr. Galdámez was returning home at 11:30 PM, accompanied by one of his sons. Three individuals approach them and fired several times. Apparently, Mr. Galdámez was armed and was able to “repel the attack.” 8 Cf. Case of James et al., supra footnote 12, Considering 6, Matter of the Jiguamiandó and Curbaradó communities, supra footnote 12, Considering 6, and Matter of Gladys Lanza Ochoa, supra footnote 8, Considering 7.