Santo Domingo.- Dominican President Luis Abinader The promulgation of the new defended Monday Criminal Codehighlighting that, although it is not perfect, it represents a step step and contains important improvements with respect to the legal framework in force since 1884.
He said that the law of Criminal Codewhich promulgated this Sunday and will enter into force in August 2026, “it is not ideal”, but it is the best possible, since, among other things, it replaces legislation dating from 1884.
«There are repeat offenders with three or four crimes, who have been able to get to the streets for the code we have. These criminals take death to families (…) a new law was needed to harden the penalties and strengthen the struggle of justice against crime, ”emphasized the ruler in his press conference on Mondays in the National Palace.
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This Monday, the Attorney General of the Republic, Yeni Berenice Reynosohe considered “positive” the promulgation of the new Dominican Criminal Code, specifying that he is aligned with the modern tendencies of criminal law.
Reynoso explained in a note that the Public Ministry analyzed in a comparative way the new legal framework against laws, jurisprudence and doctrine of different countries, concluding that it represents a significant advance.
Among the most relevant advances that stand out in the Criminal Code They include the typification of crimes such as feminicide, ordering murders, cyberbullying, economic violence, dissemination of videos, audio or images for blackmail, the pyramid scam, the non -regulated financial intermediation and the instigation of suicide.
Likewise, all conventional assumptions of crimes against humanity and genocide, the forced disappearance, crimes with eventual intent and conscious guilt, doping damages, self -site, the false complaint, the obstruction of justice and the penalty for rape within marriage or in couple relationships are typified.
The new Criminal Code He was sanctioned after more than 20 years of swollen in the National Congressbecause it has been a source of lit among several sectors, since the initiative maintains the penalty of abortion, condemned by feminist groups.
