
The Council of Ministers approves the decree that introduces preventive detention for minors and reverses the burden of proof on capacity to understand
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announces the approval of a security decree which extends preventive detention to minors and introduces the presumption of mental capacity for children between 14 and 18 years old.
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The government has approved a decree that modifies the rules on the criminal responsibility of minors between 14 and 18 years old.
Today for a boy between 14 and 18 the State must demonstrate every time that he was able to understand what he was doing. We had already approved a rule that overturns this principle, i.e. it is presumed that he was able to understand what he was doing unless proven otherwise.
That rule is in Parliament, but with today's decree it becomes effective immediately. And the preventive detention which until now only applied to adults can also be applied to minors. Thus the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in a video after the approval of the new security decree by the Council of Ministers.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Immediate entry into force of the safety decree
Very likely · Within days

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