It wasn’t even an accident, he just killed a cyclist because he wanted to drive on a bicycle path without being, rightfully, called out for it. Bonus points for having his child in his car.
And he wasn’t on drugs or anything, wasn’t a violent dude, he cried stating he didn’t know why he did that.
As if driving a tank made you feel invincible and dumb 🤦🏻🤷🏻♂️
He had multiple prior condamnations, he is violent
He had ? Ok I just read the article above and not more from French news.
No problem! And it doesn’t remove from your point about cars making us behave differently
Altis made a very informative video about the whole thing
wasn’t a violent dude
What is a killing a person then?
What a piece of shit. I hope he gets the book thrown at him.
He won’t, because he’s rich. The article is so apologetic already, several paragraphs about how bad this poor guy feels. Bonus points for mentioning he’s a father of four (nothing is mentioned about the victim’s family). "I’m not a thug!'. You disregarded other people’s safety and well being for your own benefit, when being called out, you used unreasonable force. That’s a thug to me.
This is partly a cultural difference. In Europe, there is just less emphasis on the retribution aspect of punishment. For an extreme example that’s impossible to imagine in America, see the case of the Norwegian shooter.
And yes, I do think Europe does things better. The reality is that retribution serves no practical purpose. The kind of person who commits an awful crime is, by definition, not the kind who thinks hard about consequences, or else like here it’s done in hot-blooded anger. Either way, the abstract fact of punishment is not going to function as a deterrent. So all we’re left with is the primal urge to inflict suffering on the perpetrator. Personally, I like to think that we can try to rise above that.
10 year prison term seems fitting for a murder
I imagine that car deaths are not a “fact of life” in Europe as they are in the US, so he can actually get some punishment.
So this is another “Affluezna” watershed moment, I guess?
Smug europoors in shambles…
