translated from Spanish: National prosecutor questioned preventing identity check stake for adolescents

National prosecutor Jorge Abbott referred to the project approved in the Chamber of Deputies that will allow young people to carry out preventive identity checks from the age of 16. It was in Cooperative that the persecutor questioned the measure, ensuring that resources should be used with children and adolescents who have already committed crimes. “Paradomically, the number of children and adolescents committing crimes has been falling, but the number of crimes committed by these young people has been increasing and the violence with which they commit them,” he said. And in this sense, he stated that from the Government “he probably has a different vision from ours”, reiterating that he does not believe in efficiency “since you have to go fishing among four million people, to identify 20 thousand”. For the same reason, he insisted that “what will produce in those four million children is that they will be controlled and they will react with rage, they will feel discriminated against.” In addition, he replied that “we therefore believe that it is logical to take those same resources to focus attention on those juvenile criminal law violators that we can identify and who are a small group of that universe,” he concluded.

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