Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
The number of young people who commit crimes in Belgium has risen over the past five years from 59,473 to 65,377. What is striking about these figures published by local media quoting the Public Prosecutor's Office is the sometimes very young age of the "offenders": 2,264 are between the ages of 6 and 12 years old, and in 191 cases involving even children under 6 years of age. This is what De Sondag wrote.
These more than 65,000 files relate to theft, extortion, assault, battery, assault, crimes against public order and in 165 cases also murder, manslaughter and manslaughter. About 80 percent of crimes are committed by boys, and at least 191 of them are under the age of 6.
These last files are all rejected. Juvenile criminal law only applies from the age of 12, so children cannot be prosecuted. We often open a social investigation into these files to gain insight into the context or underlying cause,” says Ine Wymersch, a prosecutor at the Public Prosecutor's Office in Halle-Vilvoorde.