Javier Milei
gave the green light
to move quickly with the law that raises the lowering of the age of imputability and the Government wants to take advantage of the impact generated by the arrest of a 15-year-old boy, identified as the alleged murderer of the Rosario beachgoer, to unblock a reform that has been debated in Argentina for decades but has never achieved consensus. Next week the Casa Rosada will have the project ready to submit to Congress.
Thus, after the statements of the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, who indicated that "the Imputability Law is already entering the National Congress", the Minister of Justice,
Mariano Cúneo Libarona, anticipated that next week the project "will to be ready
. "
"Details are missing, I am finishing it this long weekend and we will have it ready to send next week," he confirmed to
Clarín.
At the request of the President, Cúneo Libarona will finish the last lines of a text on which he has been working since he took office. "I have said it since I took office:
it is one of my priorities
," reinforced the minister who decided to draft the project himself, based on proposals sent to him by his advisors.
Indeed, in January Cúneo had included the idea of
a new Minority Law
as one of the debates that he was going to raise with the ruling party and marked the month of March as the possible date to submit the project to Congress.
"From
14 years old
is the age I like. A boy of that age deserves attention, no matter what the crime is," he had anticipated.
But the Government aimed all its chips at the Omnibus Law and other Justice issues and had postponed one of its campaign axes regarding security. However, in several Cabinet meetings,
Bullrich insisted on the need to give a clear signal and without delay raise the discussion in Congress
.
The crusade against drug traffickers in Santa Fe and the brutal crime of Bruno Bussanich once again put the debate on the pending reforms in criminal matters on the agenda, although the Government's first reaction was to present the anti-mafia package.
Only after the arrest of the
15-year-old
hitman did the Government warn about the convenience of speeding up the time to limit sectors of the opposition that historically opposed modifying Law 22,278, sanctioned during the military dictatorship, which maintains that "it is not punishable "the minor who has not reached the age of sixteen."
Thus, after Bullrich's tweet and Milei's order, Cúneo Libarona convened his team to put the final touches on the law.
"He is analyzing 30 projects
and finishing writing a text that is unobjectionable," they assured this newspaper from those around the Minister of Justice.
In effect, it was the President who accelerated the times. The minister's idea was to take a few more days to prepare the text, but the president's reaction did not give him room to do so. "Whoever does it, pays for it," said Milei, upon learning that the detainee was a minor. From there, as Clarín learned, everything changed. More so when the President accompanied by republishing the announcement, almost as a claim, that Bullrich had made to Cúneo when he wrote on his social networks: "It is our obligation that, in cases like these, Justice is done. It is already entering the Congress of the Nation the Law of Imputability so that crimes like these never again go unpunished."
In this context, the post made by his spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, is noted: "Adult crime, adult penalty," wrote the official, when reporting on the arrest of the young hitman, in line with the President's order to toughen the discourse. and move forward.
Even with the text in the middle of the drafting stage, official sources confirmed to Clarín that the expected age of imputability "for all crimes" will be 14 years but that "in the case of serious crimes, it will not matter whether it is lower: a special regime".
On alert due to the opposition's questions, the Government will include in the project the construction of prisons specially designed for minors between 14 and 18 years old, with special treatment for adults. "They will not be called prisons: they will be 'educational establishments'," said a voice familiar with the lyrics of the project. "Kirchnerism will not be able to oppose. They will have to choose between being on the side of the drug traffickers or the victims," reasoned a high-ranking leader who surrounds the President.