More and more crimes are committed by young people and children: in some cases even younger than 6 years

The number of young people committing a crime in Belgium has increased over the past five years from 59,473 to 65,377. Striking in these figures from the Public Prosecution Service is the sometimes very young age of the ‘perpetrators’: 2,264 are between 6 and 12 years old, in 191 cases it even concerns children younger than 6. De Zondag writes that.

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