The Ministry of Justice initiates a consultation regarding possible changes to the Criminal Code for the classification
Domestic violence. Photo source: Lev Dolgachov / Alamy / Alamy / Profimedia
The Ministry of Justice announces that it initiates a process of consulting on the necessity and ways of completing the normative framework regarding the crimes against life, including the situations of femicide. According to the Ministry of Justice, a solution would be the establishment in the crime of qualified murder of a special aggravating circumstance.
The Ministry of Justice made this announcement on Monday, “considering the concern generated in the public space for committing crimes against life, especially as a result of the reception, at the level of society, of a vulnerable position of certain categories of persons”, as well as “concern expressed by the Romanian Parliament in this regard, in its quality, as well as in the Romanian national legislative solutions that are departed, in the case of life offenses, from the traditional solution of a general/egalitarian regulation and is sometimes oriented – in response to the different particular situations – to a more specific regulation ”.
Thus, starting from the provisions in force of the Criminal Code that incriminates the facts of murder, the Ministry of Justice announces that “it will initiate consultations with all the relevant actors so as to decide whether the legislative interventions are required on the respective provisions of the Criminal Code and, if such a necessity will be established, to identify the optimal solutions to this regulatory, to contribute to this.
According to the Ministry of Justice, such a solution may consist in the establishment in the crime of qualified murder of a special aggravating circumstance consisting of the suppression of a person's life for reasons related to race, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, sexual orientation, opinion or political affiliation, wealth, social origin, social origin, disabilities circumstances of the same kind. In these cases, the deed would be the crime of qualified murder, for which the law provides for the punishment of life imprisonment, alternatively with the prison sentence from 15 to 25 years.
Dozens of cases of Femicide in Romania this year
Since the beginning of the year, in Romania at least 38 women have been killed, either by their partners at that time, or by former partners.
In June, thousands of people protested in front of the government to ask the authorities with firm measures to prevent gender violence. “We are tired of empty words”, “everywhere the police, nowhere justice”, “indifference nourishes violence” and “hundreds of women are dead, this is not justice”-they were some of their messages.
President Nicusor Dan was also pronounced about this phenomenon, who believes that femical is “a serious problem” in Romania and that the Romanian state “does not give an impression of strength, firmness”.
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