The Prime Minister said he was ready, Thursday, to open the debate on “mitigations of the minority excuse” in criminal convictions. This would be an attack on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, for the magistrates’ union.
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The reactions continue to pour in. After Gabriel Attal’s announcements to fight against minor violence, the Magistrates’ Union (SM) criticized measures “highly concerning” who outline a “justice ever more expeditious and stigmatizing”, Friday April 19. Traveling in Essonne, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, sounded the hour of the “general mobilization” in front of “addiction to violence” of some adolescents.
In particular, he said he was ready to open the debate on “mitigations of the minority excuse” in criminal convictions. Nonsense for the union, classified on the left, for which calling into question the principle of a reduced sentence for minors amounts to “violating one of the fundamental principles of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child of which France is a signatory”.
Juvenile justice far from being lax, according to the union
In his press release, the SM considers that juvenile justice is not “lax and overwhelmed by hordes of uncontrollable children”, but on the contrary it was “particularly hardened in recent years”. In a third of cases, minors are sentenced to prison, and the average length of sentences increased from five and a half months in 2010 to nine months in 2020, observes the union, citing statistical data from the Ministry of Justice published in 2022.
“Further increase the penalties incurred by minors or subject them from the age of 16 to the immediate appearance procedure” would be done “in defiance of the principles of constitutional value of mitigation of [leur] responsibility” And “adapting measures and procedures to their ages”further denounces the Magistrates’ Union.
