Photo: Dimitar Kyosemarliev, Dnes.bg
The Parliament adopted in the first reading amendments to the Penal Code introduced by the Council of Ministers and MPs.
The amendments introduced by the BSP increase the penalties for drunk and drugged drivers.
In addition, prison terms and fines for human traffickers are increasing. Confiscation of all the perpetrator’s property is also foreseen.
GERB’s proposal, which was also accepted, aims to increase road traffic safety and improve administrative services. It is planned to criminalize the refusal of a test to establish the use of narcotic substances or their analogues, with the aim of achieving a preventive, warning and educational impact on the behavior of drivers, and the refusal of a test presumes use and should be equated with the established use of narcotic substances or their analogues analogues and to be punished according to the order provided for this.
The amendments of the IC provide for a reduction in the amount of fines for insult and defamation.
In addition, he is exempted from criminal liability and imposition of administrative penalty when the object of insult or defamation is a body of authority.
With the changes of the caretaker government in NK, the circle of crimes with racist or xenophobic motives is expanded, by proposing more severe punishments for kidnapping, illegal imprisonment, coercion, threat, surveillance, insult, desecration of a religious temple or grave monument, unlawful destruction or damage to someone else’s property, incitement to commit a crime and arson.
It also provides for criminal liability for publicly justifying, denying or grossly belittling such crimes, committed in a way that may create a danger of violence or create hatred against individuals or groups of people united by race, skin colour, religion, origin, national or ethnic origin.
Deputies also adopted other changes in the Criminal Code, which increase the penalties for crimes and cruelty to animals.
2023-05-19 13:54:00
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