Saxony and Thuringia are calling for the youth criminal law to be tightened in the event of terrorism

Saxony and Thuringia want to use a Federal Council initiative to tighten juvenile criminal law. “Anyone who commits terrorist crimes as an adolescent is consciously going against our free legal system,” said Saxon Justice Minister Constanze Geiert (CDU), according to a statement. In her opinion, if there is concrete evidence of serious politically or ideologically motivated acts of violence by adolescents, juvenile criminal law should be excluded.

Her counterpart in Thuringia, Beate Meißner (CDU), said that the aim was not to react as harshly as possible, but rather to have an effective reaction. "The state must be able to intervene where it is necessary - to protect the victims, to protect the general public and also to protect young people from further criminal development."

The black-red federal government wants to draw conclusions from, among other things, the Islamist terrorist attack at Christopher Street Day (CSD) in Berlin with a ten-point plan. This includes that when juvenile criminal law is applied, appropriate justification is expressly required. From Geiert and Meißner's point of view, this doesn't go far enough.