The Normal Secretary of Germany’s conservative CDU get together has known as for the nation’s age of legal duty to be lowered from 14 to 12.
Carsten Linnemann instructed the Welt TV channel that “if one thing occurs to 13-year-olds each week or each month, then we’ve got to react.”
He identified that Switzerland has lowered the restrict, and that he was “clearly in favour of twelve years.”
His feedback observe an incident within the southern metropolis of Stuttgart final week, wherein a 13-year-old is claimed to have pushed a 12-year-old in opposition to an incoming prepare after an argument. The kid was killed.
Due to his age, the 13-year-old shouldn’t be criminally liable and subsequently can’t be prosecuted.
Linnemann stated that reducing the age wouldn’t clear up “all issues”, however that day by day on which such a discount prevented a criminal offense was “a great day for Germany – and that is why we should always do it”.
To date, he stated, folks had at all times gone again to enterprise as typical after such circumstances. “And I do not suppose that is proper.”
