Traffic Accident Criminals should be punished as terrorists, drug dealers

Services of gendarmerie and police in coordination with the Ministry of Transport will raise a proposal to the Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal, to make traffic a national priority within the strategy of government, through classifying it as crimes and drugs, and ask for increasing the penalties that are issued by the judicial authoritiesfor up to 20 years, against those involved in the most dangerous traffic accidents, and this directly after the application of the work of points of driving license next January.

Official sources at the National Gendarmerie told Echorouk, on the sidelines of the opening of National Forum on the contribution of forensic evidence in the course of a judicial investigation at the National Institute of Criminology and Criminal Evidence, that the services of the national gendarmerie in coordination with the Ministry
of Transport, will raise a detailed report to the Prime Minister, in the framework of find how to reduce traffic accidents, by giving it a national priority and classify it as a crime that requires control, like the phenomenon of terrorism, smuggling and drugs, and this after ending the proposal of retrieving driving licences after pointing,
which was proposed and is still waiting application on the ground on January 2013.

In a related context, an official from the Directorate of Operational work at the national gendarmerie leadership told Echorouk, that raising proposals to give traffic accidents a national priority by involving all agencies and ministries, and classify them as dangerous crimes like drugs, after all deterrent laws, for offenses and
misdemeanors traffic, became no longer sufficient to reduce traffic accidents, as the road terrorism during the last ten years, according to the statistics, obtained by Echorouk, caused the death of 51.000 people. Which is equivalent to the death of 1514 people a day, and more than 130 others injured, in 25023 traffic accident, and this despite campaigns of awareness and punitive procedures, like pulling driving licenses, which reached, through ten months of 2012 more than 35.000 driving licenses.

Echorouk sources added that within the proposals that will be submitted to the prime minister, they called for tougher punishment for those involved in serious traffic accidents, and punish them with 20 years in prison, like those involved in terrorism and drug trafficking, a measure that will make the driver feel responsible in
maintaining his/her safety and that of the other citizens.