The Argentine president, Javier Milei, said that the minimum age could be carried out to impute crimes and criminally judge minors up to 10 years, and defended his government’s project again to lower it from 16 to 13 years. “We could also take it to ten, because There are countries in the world in ten“said the president this Sunday in an interview with the LN+ channel about the minimum punishability age, an issue that has opened a great debate in this country.
In Argentina, the criminal regime to minority (Law N 22.278) establishes that Children under 16 cannot be tried. As for those who are between 16 and 18, they can only be tried for public action crimes – which, due to their severity, do not need to be denounced by a private for the prosecutor to initiate an investigation – or that involve a penalty of more than two years in prison.
And these They can only start fulfilling their penalty in a jail at age 18. Until that age, according to law, may be deprived of their liberty in Specialized centers for minors. According to the national survey of juvenile criminal devices and its population of the Ministry of Children, Adolescents and Family, in the first semester of 2023 there were 2,407 minors in centers And, of them, 1,022 were under 16.
In his interview with LN+ on Sunday, Milei mentioned the project announced on June 28, 2024 by the Ministry of National Security, which seeks to lower the minimum punishability age at age 13, and referred to the case of Kim Gómez, the seven -year -old girl who was dragged with the vehicle that a group of children had stolen to her mother, a fact that caused her death.
“One of Kim’s murderers (14 years old) could not have come out and would be imprisoned,” Milei warned to justify his plans. And in that sense, he attacked the Peronist Axel Kicillof, governor of the province of Buenos Aires, where the event took place.
“You cannot work (with him) because he wants to go to the one side, because he is in favor of criminals and we are in favor of the honest,” Milei said in response to Kicillof, who has insisted on different occasions on the need to work together with the national state against violence.
“Correst del Camino (resign) and let us intervene the province. In a year we are going to end the violence“The president wrote last Friday in his X profile in reference to Kicillof.” Kicillof is part of the problem, not the solution, “Milei added.
Source: Lasexta
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