Porque no los dos

Seriously though, what the actual fuck:

"You were both active participants in the offending," Judge Blair said.

However the judge said she did not believe the attack on the hikers was politically or racially motivated, and agreed it was not premeditated.

"In both your cases your prospects of rehabilitation are good," she said.

Judge Blair sentenced Sewell to five weeks in jail, but said he did not need to return to custody having already spent time in prison when his bail was denied.

Hersant, 24, was sentenced to three days' jail — the same amount of time he had already spent in custody.

Outside court, Sewell and Hersant told journalists they were innocent of the charges, despite entering guilty pleas.

They spouted homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs and walked off.

All the way down.

They both have kids under a year old and both pleaded guilty early on, saving the victims having to take the stand.

I think it was a fair ~~decision~~ outcome but should have been made to pay compensation [EDIT: and the judge's comment that it wasn't racial or political... WTF?]

I had a similar interaction myself back in the late 90's.

I had loggers stomp on my parked car, with me in it, in Orbost (a logging town in Victoria) because they rightly guessed I was headed for the protestors camp. Had to drive hunched over because they caved the roof in a little.

It began because it was pub closing time on a Friday night and one of their more worldly mates had exited the pub early to warn me but I had ordered a pizza after my long drive and naively decided to wait. Oops.

Lucky that, as I drove off, the drunk attackers standing on the car didn't fall and kill themselves.

Reported to cops but I wasn't interested in taking it to court (I lived far away) only in payment for repairs and that was arranged without fuss.