ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “We did not lower the age for the imputability of the person. The 14-year-old. We haven’t tightened our penis. The novelty concerns the presumption of attribubility.” This was said by the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, on the ddl approved by the Council of Ministers in the matter of child liability.
“Today the child’s attribubility must be ascertained positively by chance, because there is a kind of presumption of non-attachability, that is, of inability to understand and want from the young man between the 14 and 18 years – he added -. With this rule we reverse the burden of proof: we assume the ability to understand and want, except for the contrary evidence that may be found following investigations that may be arranged by the pm or by the judge in cases of competence. There is no lowering of age of imputability and there is no tightening of the penis.”.
To a question about the political ratio of the measure, Nordio responded as follows: “It is the final toll of a whole series of measures, beginning with dl Caivano, following the recrudescence of juvenile delinquency. This is a kind of facilitation of the process” compared to previous norms, dating back to the Rocco code, “when even psychological parameters on age were well different from those of today”.
MELONI “PRINCIPIO È CHE CHI SBAGLIA PAGA, ANCHE A 15 O 16 ANNI”
“Today the government approved a bill that changes the rules on child imputability. It begins with a principle that we are trying to affirm in every area: those who attack, those who robbery, those who devastate must always pay, even if they are 15 or 16 years old.” The President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, said this in a video on social media, on the ddl approved by the Council of Ministers. “For this we have acted and continue to act: stop for minors surprised with a weapon, strict norms against the spread of knives, harder penis for group damages and today a further step. Our order now provides that a minor between 14 and 18 years responds to the crime only if a judge finds that he is capable of wanting – explains the premier -. With this measure that capacity is always assumed, it means that one can still prove the opposite before a judge, but the starting point changes. First the inability was assumed, today the responsibility is assumed. This rule mainly affects those who think they are untouchable, exploits minors as a tampering for their own affairs, but also serves to punish those boys who think they can do as they want because they know that nothing will happen to them.
“It is clear, the norm alone does not solve the problem, nor when we talk about very young people we can only reason on the level of repression. This measure is a dowel in a much more difficult, often silent path, because a 15 or 16-year-old boy who becomes violent, commits offenses, almost never comes there alone – Meloni emphasizes. Very often there is a family that has forgotten it, a school that has lost contact, a neighborhood where in the evening there is nothing, an adult who took advantage of the vacuum. Filling that void requires a lot of work. Support for families, school, training, work, sports centers, aggregation spaces, fight against degradation, presidi in the most difficult areas. And we are working on all these fronts because everything is held together. The firmness without alternatives is not enough, but the alternatives without firmness do not solve the problem. Some results begin to see and for this reason we want to insist, because a just state has the courage to change the rules when they do not work and has the duty to be strict with those who are wrong, but also present with those who risk losing themselves, because there is no real freedom without responsibility”, the President of the Council concludes.
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