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
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    121 year ago

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

    • jrubal1462
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      21 year 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
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        11 year 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.

  • experbia
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    71 year ago

    Even after being charged, Ouahioune asked Canadian newspaper La Presse to unban his Rainbow Six Siege account: “Can you say that I am kindly asking the Ubisoft team to ‘unban’ my account please,” Ouahioune said. “I have put over $1,500 in cosmetic enhancements in my profile.”

    Wow.

  • @10111011110101
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    61 year ago

    This has to be one of the stupidest consequences ever for something so serious.

  • misterschmoo
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    11 year ago

    Please tell me the French police slapped him upside the head a couple of times when they arrested him… please.

  • Ostermac
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    01 year ago

    He took one for the team, the real criminals are Ubisoft and what they did to the game.

    • @Katana314
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      41 year ago

      Brave man really justifying a SWATting here.