The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) said today that justice must act in all cases of violence involving young people and overcoming obstacles and “opaque phenomena” that hinder this work.
Joana Marques Vidal responded this way to journalists’ questions about the case from the Office of the Army Pupils, in which three students from 6 were physically assaulted by other students of the same school.
Following this case, two students of Army Pupils were suspended under the inquiry procedure to determine the circumstances in which they occurred aggression.
Except that does not comment on specific issues, Joana Marques Vidal said, when you are talking about facts that might be crimes, the law says that “if the perpetrator is over 16 years is punished as an adult. ”
The legal framework provides that between 12 and 16 years, the “intervention in the education guardianship proceedings which runs in the family courts and smaller, but it has a procedural stage already responsibilization” explained the PGR, on the sidelines of the seminar “Domestic Violence – Violence Against Children and Adolescents”, which is taking place in Lisbon.
He also said that the educational measures applied can go to the detention in secure.
Asked about whether they are closed institutions and some complaints may never be known, the PGR said that “the problem of closed institutions” with many other institutions, without being the host, such as prisons or hospitals.
According to the PGR, also take place in another “kind of spaces that are opaque spaces or have operating rules that may be opaque.”
When the institutions operate in a regime that does not have an organizational structure that is “as an obstacle to community control, it is easier, unfortunately, there were some facts that may constitute a criminal offense.
“Justice has qua act there as acts for all cases, that is trying to overcome what may be obstacles to action”, defended Joana Marques Vidal.
He added that the difficulties of justice for these institutions is the same as another “type of phenomena that are opaque and difficult” the course of justice.
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