Baden-Württemberg's responsible ministers want to review the age limit for minors in criminal law. Interior Minister Thomas Strobl and Justice Minister Marion Gentges wrote a letter to this effect to their counterparts in the federal government. In the letter, which is available to SWR, the two CDU politicians call for the rule that children are only considered criminally responsible from the age of 14 to be reviewed. In the letter, Strobl and Gentges also refer to the case of 12-year-old Luise from Freudenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia. Two 12 and 13 year old girls confessed to having killed Luise with numerous knife wounds.

The recurring debate about the age limit is "very understandable," write Strobl and Gentges to Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) and Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (FDP). It must be checked "whether today the spiritual and moral maturity of young people sets in earlier than in 1923". In the letter, they call for a current study on the "age-related development of insight and control ability". The setting of the age limit at 14 years was not scientifically justified even 100 years ago.