French gamer gets three years of community service from Paris court

French gamer gets three years of community service from Paris court

The French gamer responsible for a hoax hostage call that evacuated the Ubisoft Montreal office in November 2020 was sentenced this week in a Paris court to three years of community service, according to the Montreal Gazette. Ouahioune’s three-year sentence includes punishment…

  • Ab_intra
    12•11 months ago

    Community service for doing something like that? Really. It should be jail time.

    • jrubal1462
      2•11 months ago

      I read the article expecting to find some mitigating circumstances, like maybe he was underage. Turns out he’s 22 and that sentence includes the punishment for other swatting calls, and DDoS attacks against French government sites. This seems like a shockingly lenient sentence, but I have to acknowledge that almost everything seems shockingly lenient when you come from a place with the largest incarcerated population in the world.

      3 years of community service and mandatory mental health care will probably help this dude a lot more than locking him up for 5 years with violent criminals.

      • Ab_intra
        1•11 months ago

        For sure but it’s insane that this don’t give him prison time. But then again European countries have a justice system based on rehabilitation rater than locking em up and throwing the key away like the US so i get your point.