The Salvadoran Legislative Assembly approved a legal reform evening that defines attacks on public transportation as terrorist acts.
The Salvadoran Legislative Assembly approved a legal reform evening that defines attacks on public transportation as terrorist acts.
In addition, the assembly decreed three days of “national mourning” for the deaths of eighteen people in two attacks on buses.
In an atmosphere dominated by distress over the violent attacks carried out by gang members, the unicameral legislature approved the change to an article of the Antiterrorist Act with 75 out of 84 votes in favor, congressional sources announced.
Any attack on buses will be considered a terrorist attack following this legal reform, and participants in such a crime will be punished by up to sixty years in prison.
In the same plenary session, the deputies as a sign of “solidarity” approved a decree declaring three days of mourning for the victims of the attacks.
Criminal violence in general results in El Salvador in an average of thirteen deaths every day and innumerable armed assaults committed openly in the street or on public transportation.