The government is set to crack down on juvenile crime after several headline grabbing cases recently including two cousins aged 10 and 12 were allegedly raped by a group of youths in Caivano near Naples, and a 18-year-old woman was allegedly gang raped by youths in Palermo, sources said Monday.
The government is reportedly tightening up its security package - it has not yet been decided whether it will be a decree or a bill - which could already go before cabinet this Thursday, the sources said.
They said there will be new measures against juvenile crime after the events in Caivano.
They range from the possibility of ordering the expulsion from certain urban areas (DASPOs) to minors between 14 and 18 years of age, to verbal warnings from the police commissioner for the same age group, to a beefed-up fight against the spread of firearms. (ANSA).
Source: Ansa News Agency (ANA)