2023-06-06 16:47:53
Badalona has already lived four sexual assault cases in group to minors During the last months. The last one occurred last Saturday, which is currently being investigated by the Mossos d’Esquadra. Thus, the future mayor of the Barcelona town, Xavier García Albiolwill ask before him Congress of Deputies that the penal age to the 14 years for those who have committed a crime of sexual assault.
The application of Albiol refers specifically to a modification of the minor’s law at the moment in which the new Cortes of the country are constituted after the elections of 23J. At the moment, children under 14 years of age are chargeable if they have promoted a crime of sexual assault, something that is part of a legislation created “under a mentality that no longer exists and has to be reconsidered”, according to the Catalan politician.
In response to the sexual assaults carried out on minors in the Màgic center in Badalona in recent months, Albiol values first of all that “in my time it was unthinkable that a girl or boy would have sexual relations“, he has assured this Tuesday during an interview in RAC1. Thus, he has continued ruling that “this evolution is not reflected in the laws”.
“We do not have to settle for resigning ourselves”
For this reason, the overwhelming winner by absolute majority in Badalona on 28M recognizes that “the city councils can do little but we can open debates in this line“. The future mayor has also denounced that “you cannot put a minor with 12 years in prison, but a minor under 12 years of age who commits this crime can’t be free on the street”.
Among the measures led by a municipal corporation for cases such as Badalona, Albiol has indicated that the consistories can be presented in the form of a private accusation on these events and carry out awareness and training campaigns in educational centers and leisure areas. “The limitations of the municipalities are important on issues like this, but we do not have to settle for resigning ourselves and doing concentrations of rejection”, denounces the popular.
The Government does not defend lowering the criminal age
Patricia Beachthe spokesperson for Government of the Generalitathas reacted to Albiol’s requests, ensuring that the regional Executive does not advocate implementing a reduction in the penal ageasking him that it is not possible “legislate by headline“. “There must be an assumption of responsibility that does not happen by hardening the sentences, but by the reinsertion; for what never do it again“, Beach has indicated this Tuesday.
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