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.
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.
In the US, prison sentences can be consecutive or concurrent. It's up to each sentencing (as provided for by law).
I always thought repeated offenses call for harsher sentences, not milder, but I guess here we are now.
20 years is the maximum sentence in France
If absolutely is not. 30 years is possible, and en perpétuité (forever) in very rare cases.
It depends on the offense. Not all offenses have the same maximum.
Does France have the concept of a "violent offender" or medical detention? You basically hold someone indefinitely, routinely assessing if they can be released.
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.
Thanks. The incongruity between en and fr Wikipedia is sometimes frustrating.
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.
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.
The only real con he pulled was getting people to believe his stories.
Abagnale is a bit of an unreliable witness. He blatantly overstates his "exploits".
And not from old age
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.
Im not usually a proponent of capital punishment, but there's a special place in hell for this man.
Well can we seriously assume this man has eternal punishment in hell waiting for him?
If not we should make his time here confronting and uncomfortable, constantly reminding him off his sins.
You must be very certain that death is not a quick release of pain and suffering in order to wish it upon these kind of people.
I'm sure Brigitte Bardot will be along shortly to protest the injustice...of a sex criminal suffering the consequences of their actions.
I searched her Wikipedia page and she seems cool as hell, but no mention of prisoners rights advocacy.
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.
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.
...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.
She's a feminist and animal rights activist, yes. She is also pretty islamophobic and racist, also noted on the wiki page.
Guess I'm bad at reading. Seems worthy of a " controversies " section at that point…
Worth to be hang.
That'd be too easy, I'm in for a damp isolation cell for the rest of his life, and no dental care.
feet first into a woodchipper set to 1% speed is the only appropriate punishment for that dude
every victim should get to kick him once as hard as they like
whoever downvoted this needs to be investigated. likely a pedo
or not in favor of feeding criminals into woodchippers
you must be new on lemmy...
Give him the needle
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?
No cameras in courtrooms.
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.
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