The Minister of Justice, Didier Migaud, declared on Tuesday that he was not hostile to the idea of dismissing the minority excuse for acts of “extreme violence”.
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“I think it’s a possibility that needs to be considered.”assured Thursday October 10 the First Secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure, while the Minister of Justice Didier Migaud declared Tuesday not to be hostile to the idea of dismissing the excuse of minority for facts of a “extreme violence”. “For very serious crimes, for sexual crimes, for blood crimes, the excuse of minority is less justified”adds the boss of the PS.
The minority excuse is a principle which dates back to a 1945 ordinance, included in the Penal Code, according to which a minor must be punished less severely than an adult. It has only been lifted twice by the courts since 1945, for particularly serious crimes, and remains at the sovereign discretion of the judges.
Olivier Faure took the example of the young 14-year-old hitman, suspected of having shot dead a VTC driver in Marseille on October 4. “It’s not entirely common. We’re not just going to put him with an electronic bracelet or place him in a closed center. There comes a time when there are still people who present a danger”he admits.
Olivier Faure insisted on the integration aspect. He hopes it’s “possible to recover these young people”. But “this assumes that there is support and that we do not reduce the credits, in particular for the judicial protection of young people. The 500 million euros of which Didier Migaud will be deprived, they are precisely intended for the reintegration of these young peoplehe explains.