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French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence

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375 points begueradj | 4 comments | 22 Oct 25 05:49 UTC | HN request time: 1.451s | source
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yard2010 ◴[22 Oct 25 08:45 UTC] No.45666375[source]▶
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thrance[dead post] ◴[22 Oct 25 08:54 UTC] No.45666426[source]▶
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gnfargbl ◴[22 Oct 25 09:27 UTC] No.45666664[source]▶
Article 3 ECHR should prevent the prison authorities from putting any prisoner in a position where they know he's going to "get roughed up". You and I both want that right for ourselves, so surely we should also extend it to Sarzoky?
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thrance ◴[22 Oct 25 09:58 UTC] No.45666887[source]▶
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1. ants_everywhere ◴[22 Oct 25 13:12 UTC] No.45668588[source]▶
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2. thrance ◴[22 Oct 25 14:24 UTC] No.45669615[source]▶
No, I am calling for Sarkozy to experience exactly what he helped create, nothing more, nothing less.

Sarkozy ran a right wing populist campaign promising "zero tolerance" and being "tough on crime". He helped, through the policies passed under his term, create a huge overcrowding issue within our jail system. It would be only fair for him to experience all of that for himself, after the many heinous crimes he's committed.

I have been opposed to these policies in forever, and advocate for the humane treatment of prisoners. Now that Sarkozy is finally facing some retribution for his crimes, we should all feel sorry for him and bend over backwards to make his life more comfortable. Fuck that. He should reap what he sowed. I don't believe in that "they go low, we go high" bullshit.

3. thrance ◴[22 Oct 25 21:49 UTC] No.45675600{5}[source]▶
So you don't think that increasingly violent populist right wing rhetoric has any impact on the current surge of political violence, that is provably committed by mostly right wing individuals? I'm telling you to include these quotes because they're incredibly relevant. You remaining blind to this is in very bad taste.

Sarkozy is at the root of much prison violence, but we should feel sorry for him now that he's facing prison himself? I won't. I am merely wishing for him to get a taste of his own medicine, not to be subjected to senseless, uncalled for physical violence.

I'll link you aaplok's comment, somewhere else on this thread, that summarizes my viewpoint with much more verve than I: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45667285

4. dang ◴[23 Oct 25 03:38 UTC] No.45677917[source]▶
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've broken the site guidelines very badly in this thread. Comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45669994 are the kind of thing we ban an account for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.