The president of Argentina, the ultra -rightist Javier Milei, announced Thursday that he will promote a reform of the Criminal Code that, among other aspects, Increase penalties for various types of crimes y The imputability age from 16 to 13 years down.
“We present these reforms of Zero tolerance against crime. If we manage to approve these reforms, those who delinate will pay it seriously and The Argentines are going to live in a safer society“Milei said.
A few weeks for the legislative elections of October 26, the president said that, to carry out this project, it will be necessary to have parliamentarians who are “on the side of the victims and not on the side of the criminals.”
“You have to have tougher penalties, That they apply to whoever corresponds, that the judgments are made quickly and that the criminals comply with the sentence where, in jail, so that wells may live again in freedom, “said the president in an act in the jail of the town of Ezeiza, in the province of Buenos Aires.
Argentine Minister of Security and Senator candidate, Patricia Bullrich, defined the proposed penal code as a “Zero Tolerance Code”that “increases the penalties of all crimes, particularly serious, and incorporates crimes that citizens suffer today.”
Greater penalties
As for sentences, the government intends to increase them, for example, From 10 to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicides, and implanting the Perpetual chain for the homicides committed by barsbravas in places with mass audience.
It is also proposed that the carrying of firearms and white weapons have a non -release penalty.
Besides Penalties for robberies, drug trafficking, trafficking in people are aggravatedorganized crime, kidnapping, child pornography, Pyramidal scams, virtual kidnappings, harassment, false testimony and threats.
Bullrich explained that the false complaint will also be incorporated as a crime when it is linked to sexual crimes or seeks restrict the possibility of seeing children.
As for Corruption crimes In the public administration, the penalties will be aggravated in case of whoever will be convicted of president, vice president, minister, governor, judge or parliamentarian.
Attributable at age 13
As part of the reform, the Milei government proposes Lower the imputability age at age 13.
“Today we see how they use Welds the narcos, We see how young people aged 14 or 15 kill and return home as if nothing had happened. Therefore, we are raising the reduction of the age of imputability at age 13, “said Bullrich.
Currently, in Argentina It cannot be charged to a child under 16, While teenagers between 16 and 18 are attributable but only if the crime they committed has a penalty exceeding two years in prison.
On the other hand, the Executive proposed that several crimes stop prescribing the period of 10 years and becoming imprescriptible.
These are especially serious crimes, such as aggravated homicides, sexual crimes, corruption of minorsthe promotion and facilitation of prostitutionTrafficking in persons, kidnappings, the attack on the constitutional order and the democratic system, terrorism and drug trafficking, among others.