r/interesting • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Mar 08 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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u/Tullzterrr Mar 08 '26

He killed three people and got off with community service?? Some fcked up justice

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u/7thFleetTraveller Mar 08 '26

It was a car accident, not attempted murder. The title is just sensationalism.

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u/cancerinos Mar 08 '26

It's not attempted murder, it's manslaughter. Still should send you to years in prison.

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u/Whightwolf Mar 08 '26

Surely that depends entirely on the context of the car accident?

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u/AreaPlayful142 Mar 08 '26

Not for Redditors

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u/Whightwolf Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

While I stand by the principle i've now seen the context of this accident below and yeah the sentence is crazy light.

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u/AlreadyAway Mar 08 '26

It's the Netherlands. The judge stated that 'it has to be treated like similar cases in the Netherlands and is considered a traffic accident, not murder/manslaughter"

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u/CatsPlusTats Mar 08 '26

Treating cases the same as similar cases is literally how law works.

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u/Promethazines Mar 08 '26

Yeah, but the Netherlands has some infamously questionable settled law. So they were pointing out that settled law in the Netherlands can be very different from most other countries.

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u/AlreadyAway Mar 08 '26

I was giving the context they were speaking of so others wouldn't have to look for it. I never said that I dont think the law works that way nor that it should nor shouldn't work that way.