fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoFrench paedophile surgeon who abused hundreds sentenced to 20 years in jailwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1253arrow-down10
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minus-squareTheEntity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·5 months agoI always thought repeated offenses call for harsher sentences, not milder, but I guess here we are now.
minus-squareVittelius@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·5 months ago20 years is the maximum sentence in France
minus-squarecrapwittyname@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 months agoIf absolutely is not. 30 years is possible, and en perpétuité (forever) in very rare cases.
minus-squareSynapse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoIt depends on the offense. Not all offenses have the same maximum.
minus-squareSchmuppes@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoThe 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.
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.
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.