Juvenile crime crackdown will mean children can be arrested if they are caught carrying weapons or drugs
The Italian government has approved a law that will make it easier to arrest and imprison children as young as 14 as part of its crackdown on juvenile crime after a series of high-profile cases involving teen gangs.
In a rare press conference on Thursday, she said her government was “putting itself out there” to tackle an issue she said was neglected by previous administrations. “It is not an easy challenge,” she said. To date, a child criminal could be kept in pre-trial detention, or under house arrest, only if the crime committed carried a sentence of nine years or more, which ruled out most crimes apart from murder. This has been reduced to six years, making it easier to impose pre-trial custody for less serious crimes.
Nevertheless, Meloni promised “life imprisonment” for minors who committed murder, during a meeting on Thursday with the mother of Giovanbattista Cutolo, a 24-year-old musician who was shot dead in late August in central Naples, allegedly by a 17-year-old during a row over parking.
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