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French courts have been imposing disproportionately severe sentences for minor offenses, including 10 months in prison for stealing a can of Red Bull and one year for a homeless boy with schizophrenia caught looting a luxury store. The overwhelmed courts rush cases, provide minimal time for defendants, and prioritize punishment under the instruction of the Justice Minister. Furthermore, the French government is censoring social media and justifying it by claiming to protect public order, but it infringes upon free speech and mirrors tactics used by authoritarian regimes. The justice system exhibits a double standard, favoring the privileged, and creates a class divide, leading to unrest. Ironically, the government compares itself to oppressive nations while undermining democratic principles.
Is that really a journalist… or a commentator? Not a very objective analysis of the situation.
Journalists aren’t intrinsically meant to be objective. They are allowed to be completely biased
And I’m allowed to take a shit on my keyboard. Doesn’t mean it’s encouraged.
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Welcome to lemmy.
And Bastille Day is coming up in about four days, isn’t it?
Oh, the irony…
It’s an interesting development for sure. In Germany they want to prosecute climate protesters (letzte Generation) for organizing a criminal organization (like mafia, yes). If things continue in this direction the saying “it’s not about left/right, it’s about freedom/authoritarianism” might soon be something I will say with zero irony.
I worry for the day when class wars become the next world war
Heavily oriented video and summary.
Here is a “check news” from liberation, a left leaning french media (warning: it’s in french), about the guy who “just stole a redbull”: https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/violences-urbaines-un-homme-a-t-il-ete-condamne-a-dix-mois-de-prison-ferme-pour-le-vol-dune-canette-de-redbull-20230704_XDDKWZ6GXRHP3JAYZQF5R2GJP4/The lawyer adds: “He’s a boy without stories.” Who, however, has a criminal record: last year, he was tried in voluntary appearance on prior admission of guilt (procedure of “plead-guilty” which allows a quick judgment and proposes a sentence less than that incurred) for burglary and received a one-year prison sentence, suspended.
He was arrested by the police on the evening of June 29 as he left a looted Monoprix store, a can of Redbull in his hand.
Not only he had a suspended sentence, he also LOOTED the redbull from a store.
Can we not post YouTube links and other (video/audio) commentaries in news communities?
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So use NewPipe.
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Delete the YouTube app and open links in a browser that blocks YT ads, like Brave.
How many hundreds of year did the fascist policeman get? Has he already been publicly hanged?
Why is he a fascist?
He killed a black man for absolutely no reason.
We have a lot of people like that here in the US. Doesn’t mean he’s a fascist; it just means he’s a murderous, racist asshole who needs to get his face caved in.
So that’s fascism huh?
+1 Please and thank you.
I mean, this happened after the UK 2012 riots as well. prosecutors will push for the maximum penalty due to the nature of the crime to deter future rioting/looting.
So they’re really going for it huh?