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[-] nulluser@lemmy.world 75 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

20 years for 299 victims. That's just over three weeks per victim.

Although...

Le Scouarnec, 74, has been dubbed France's most prolific paedophile. He is already in jail after being sentenced in 2020 to 15 years for raping and sexually assaulting four children, including two of his nieces.

He'll probably die in jail, so .. there's that.

[-] Maestro@fedia.io 41 points 2 weeks ago

In most western democracies sentences are served in parallel, not consecutively. The US is one of a few crazy places where people get sentences like 3.000+ years, or 161 life sentences.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

In the US, prison sentences can be consecutive or concurrent. It's up to each sentencing (as provided for by law).

[-] TheEntity@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I always thought repeated offenses call for harsher sentences, not milder, but I guess here we are now.

[-] Vittelius@feddit.org 19 points 2 weeks ago

20 years is the maximum sentence in France

[-] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago

If absolutely is not. 30 years is possible, and en perpétuité (forever) in very rare cases.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

It depends on the offense. Not all offenses have the same maximum.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Does France have the concept of a "violent offender" or medical detention? You basically hold someone indefinitely, routinely assessing if they can be released.

[-] Vittelius@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Apparently: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9tention_de_s%C3%BBret%C3%A9_en_France

In French criminal law, “rétention de sûreté” is a procedure for placing prisoners who have served their sentence, but who present a very high risk of reoffending because they generally suffer from a serious personality disorder, in a socio-medico-judicial security center. This measure is limited to convictions for the most serious crimes, in particular sex crimes, and must be expressly provided for in the sentencing decision

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I couldn't find an English source, even the English wiki article on preventive detention doesn't list France.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks. The incongruity between en and fr Wikipedia is sometimes frustrating.

[-] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The French legal system probably doesn't stack individual sentences and go "I sentence you to a combined twenty-eight thousand years in prison" like they do in the US.

[-] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

All I know about French prisons I learned from reading Catch Me If You Can. If that's any sort of accurate, he's gonna have a bad time.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

Abagnale is a bit of an unreliable witness. He blatantly overstates his "exploits".

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

The only real con he pulled was getting people to believe his stories.

And not from old age

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

While I'm not at all comfortable with the overuse of incarceration in our legal system, some people do need to be contained, like this unfortunate specimen.

[-] faizalr@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

That'd be too easy, I'm in for a damp isolation cell for the rest of his life, and no dental care.

[-] Owlboi@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

feet first into a woodchipper set to 1% speed is the only appropriate punishment for that dude

[-] Owlboi@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

whoever downvoted this needs to be investigated. likely a pedo

[-] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 2 weeks ago

or not in favor of feeding criminals into woodchippers

[-] GaetanLaberge@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

YOU NOT AGREE?

YOU ENNEMY !!!

NUANCE? I DONT KNOW WORD

YOU SAY WEIRD WORD?

INVESTIGATED

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

you must be new on lemmy...

[-] match@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

every victim should get to kick him once as hard as they like

[-] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Can somebody explain why every article about this is coupled with a drawing instead of, for example, the face of the piece of shit, or one of those random stock pictures that are often used for similar articles?

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 30 points 2 weeks ago

No cameras in courtrooms.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 weeks ago

The US is a weird exception in the western world where people are treated as undeserving of their human rights and privacy rights once they are sentenced for any crime. Elswhere this would be considered completely absurd.

This is the kind of thing you will usually see in court rooms.

[-] Doubletake2121@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure Brigitte Bardot will be along shortly to protest the injustice...of a sex criminal suffering the consequences of their actions.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

I searched her Wikipedia page and she seems cool as hell, but no mention of prisoners rights advocacy.

[-] Doubletake2121@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's not that. She supported Gerard Depardeau. It was a controversy about sexual assault in the French film industry. There's a bunch of articles covering it.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

EWW!!! Thanks for the context. I did not see that in my skimming.

Although personally I do believe in upholding certain basic rights for all people, criminal or no.

[-] Doubletake2121@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

...don't we all? It's one thing to support basic human decency without going out of your way to defend a clearly predatory industry or person, as she did. As the lack of oversight here allowed this individual to rape 300 people.

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