Nearly a thousand child crime cases have been identified as “priority”, that is to say when the perpetrators are identified, have a criminal record and the victims are still minors, announced Wednesday July 15 Gérald Darmanin, who had asked all prosecutors to review all the complaints filed in the wake of the Lyhanna affair.
Some 1,350 judicial inquiries have been opened since June 8, approximately four times more than last year over the same period, added the Minister of Justice during questions to the government in the National Assembly. Some 675 people have been incarcerated since June 8, while a total of 69,626 cases have been reviewed across the country, and 85,047 complaints have been recorded by prosecutors.
An unprecedented figures
“Of these revised procedures, 61.5% relate to misdemeanor acts, and 38.5% to criminal acts. 83.5% of the individuals involved are identified, 16.5% are not,” indicated the Chancellery. In a message published on social networks, Gérald Darmanin praised the “considerable work accomplished”, specifying that he would again “exchange, one by one, with all the attorneys general to take stock of their local stocks. »
In the days following the discovery of the body of Lyhanna, 11 years old, in the Gers, and the profile of the main suspect in her murder, Jérôme Barella, who had already been the subject of complaints for sexual assault on minors without ever having been heard, the Minister of Justice estimated that he had “lacked neither means nor laws”, but “to prioritize rapes against minors”. He asked the attorneys general he had summoned to the ministry to “resume all complaints affecting children” by July 14.
