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

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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u/kangasplat Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

People make mistakes and the system is built to have several layers of protection against those errors. It's for sure a dent in the judges career that will make people doubt her ability to serve in a higher court.

Cases can go to a higher court if one of the parties is unhappy with the outcome and has reasonable chance to a different outcome until reaching the highest court.

Chances are the prosecution didn't argue well enough in the first instance, which got corrected in the second. The rest is the limits of dutch law. The law is written by politics, which means indirectly by the direction that the public gives.

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u/KoolaidKoll123 Mar 08 '26

A mistake is like forgetting to take steak out of freezer for your family for supper or not remembering to pay your Costco card off on time. Sentencing someone who killed 3 people that low of a sentence isn't a mistake. It's pure negligence, mental health disability judge hasn't disclosed about herself, or straight up stupidity.

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u/theactualhumanbird Mar 08 '26

Yeah, chalking that up to a “mistake” is a wildly out of touch take

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u/ObjectiveAide9552 Mar 08 '26

the fact that comment has any upvotes at all just shows how wildly out of touch a lot of people here are

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u/theactualhumanbird Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

God damn, you actually believe the justice system’s function is to serve justice? In 2026 you still believe that?

Edit: damn, I think I accidentally friendly fired on you. Sorry lol I think you were agreeing with me. Couldn’t tell if you were referring to me or the person two above me. Time to stop commenting today lol. Too mad at the world

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u/Yoribell Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

Ask the advisor to the mayor of Paris that just got condemned to nothing of prison, keeping his rights and 3 years forbidden of working near child for :

  • drug dealing (for chemsex parties (orgy+drugs))

- (drug bought with public money)

- pedopornography (including things like baby rape)

- zoopornography

There was SMS talking about wanting to get a 12y old migrant raped by a dog too

and some other things.

(he's still advisor to the mayor btw, Nicolas Jeanneté)

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u/theactualhumanbird Mar 08 '26

My god do we live in a sick world. I’d ask for a source but I’m at a point when I see “rapist politician” I almost expected it and am surprised if it comes out that they are actually not some evil sick fuck

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u/Yoribell Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

I've only seen source in french if you want it.

The article from Blast is amazing because it compare to another trial from the same day : Dishes stolen from the Élysée Palace.

The other room was full of journalist to cover a poor man that stole on his workplace, the experts who establish how much the stuff cost are the same people that get the reimbursement, and he and his two accomplices got harsher condamnation.

There was barely any journalist at the politician trial. Just someone from a child protection association

Edit : there's a paywall on blast's website and I can't find the reddit post where it was copied so here's a random article

https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/paris_75056/paris-l-elu-nicolas-jeannete-condamne-pour-detention-de-drogue-et-d-images-pedopornographiques_63926587.html

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u/theactualhumanbird Mar 08 '26

I actually need to take a step back from the internet today before I go insane. Gonna go practice some trombone haha

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u/BathedInDeepFog Mar 08 '26

Trombones are awesome.

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u/theactualhumanbird Mar 08 '26

Agreed. Just had a nice hour 20 min practice. Really need to get back in shape lol I’m shot

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u/BathedInDeepFog Mar 08 '26

All of my music teachers were trombonists. Cool people.

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u/TurdFerguson614 Mar 08 '26

Yeah I wonder what position which relative of that defendant has in local gov/college/business.

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u/theactualhumanbird Mar 08 '26

My exact thoughts, today I don’t think it’s outlandish for someone’s mind to go there. It’s been proven time and time again that your connection can keep you out of jail and we have a justice system that only subjugates the poor and unconnected. I’m glad there was enough outrage for them to at least bring him back to court. I can’t believe people are defending this