RMP says that justice must act on all cases of violence … – iOnline

The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) said yesterday that justice must act in all cases of violence involving young people and overcoming obstacles and “opaque phenomena” that hinder this work.

The statements of Joana Marques Vidal came when asked by reporters about the case from the Office of the Army Pupils, in which three students of the 6th year were physically assaulted by other students of the same school.

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 offender is aged 16 or over, shall be punished as an adult. ”

The legal framework provides 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 RMP on the sidelines of the seminar “Domestic Violence – Violence Against Children and Adolescents”, in Lisbon.

The Attorney General’s Office also noted that the educational measures applied can go to the detention in secure.

When was faced with the possibility of such attacks happen in 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. He gave as an example the prisons and hospitals.

A more prepared Justice According to Marques Vidal, the excesses that can never be made public can also happen in another “kind of spaces that are opaque spaces or have operating rules that may be opaque. ” When institutions operate in a regime that does not have an organizational structure – which constitutes a “barrier to community control – it is easier, unfortunately, there were some facts that may constitute a criminal offense.”

It stressed that the difficulties of justice for youth care institutions is the same as another “type of phenomena that are opaque and difficult” the authorities’ action and justice.

“But we also have to prepare for it,” he said, considering that “justice is increasingly prepared to investigate complex criminalities,” not only in the institutions, as another “type of phenomena even more complex. “