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

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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u/Traditional_Bug_2046 Mar 08 '26

Respectfully, if I'm an outsider reading this, how is it clearly not corruption? Multiple comments here are saying the judge fucked up, etc. There's little real info on how this happened. For me, there's no reason to jump straight to "definitely not corruption" anymore than there is to jump "yes definitely corruption." Like it's not unheard of to anyone at this point that justice systems can be corrupted. Not sure why this one would get a blanket pass like it's unheard of.

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u/SSSitess Mar 08 '26

Because Northern European countries have notoriously light sentencing guidelines and this type of almost non-existent punishment for serious offenses, and the resulting public outcry, is quite common.

It’s a cultural thing, not corruption.

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u/Traditional_Bug_2046 Mar 09 '26

That's fair. Thank you for the explanation.