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French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence

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375 points begueradj | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 05:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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ants_everywhere ◴[22 Oct 25 13:12 UTC] No.45668588[source]▶
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1. 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.