Caroline Baudry / Photo credit: MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP 7:57 a.m., April 7, 2024
In recent days, several teenagers have been violently attacked in front of their college, like Shamseddine, 15, killed as he left his establishment. If five people are still in police custody, including four minors, Georges Fenech, a former investigating judge, believes that justice for these young people is not working as it should.
Three days after the lynching of Shamseddine, a 15-year-old teenager killed outside his college in Viry-Châtillon, the investigation continues. Five people are still in police custody, three 17-year-olds, a 15-year-old girl and a 20-year-old adult. All that remains is to determine the role of each of them. And, according to Georges Fenech, former investigating judge, the adult risks life imprisonment. Minors face a maximum of 20 years. For this former magistrate and deputy, juvenile justice does not work as it should.
“Criminalize parental responsibility”
"Justice must have resources, in particular closed educational centers. There is not one per department, there are 53 in all in France. We must also develop, unfortunately it is a fact, places in penitentiary establishments for minors. We must also incriminate the responsibility of the parents", he underlines at the microphone of Europe 1. For him, it is absolutely unacceptable that young people of 11, 12 or 13 years old find themselves in evening in the street, participate in lynchings or drug trafficking.
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"There are necessarily culpable educational deficiencies on the part of parents who must also answer for their lack of education for their children. There is significant room for progress. Let justice do its work and punish accordingly. seriousness of these facts to dissuade young people who do not understand the seriousness of their actions", claims the former magistrate.