20 years for 299 victims. That’s just over three weeks per victim.
Although…
Le Scouarnec, 74, has been dubbed France’s most prolific paedophile. He is already in jail after being sentenced in 2020 to 15 years for raping and sexually assaulting four children, including two of his nieces.
The French legal system probably doesn’t stack individual sentences and go “I sentence you to a combined twenty-eight thousand years in prison” like they do in the US.
In most western democracies sentences are served in parallel, not consecutively. The US is one of a few crazy places where people get sentences like 3.000+ years, or 161 life sentences.
20 years for 299 victims. That’s just over three weeks per victim.
Although…
He’ll probably die in jail, so … there’s that.
I always thought repeated offenses call for harsher sentences, not milder, but I guess here we are now.
20 years is the maximum sentence in France
If absolutely is not. 30 years is possible, and en perpétuité (forever) in very rare cases.
It depends on the offense. Not all offenses have the same maximum.
The French legal system probably doesn’t stack individual sentences and go “I sentence you to a combined twenty-eight thousand years in prison” like they do in the US.
All I know about French prisons I learned from reading Catch Me If You Can. If that’s any sort of accurate, he’s gonna have a bad time.
Abagnale is a bit of an unreliable witness. He blatantly overstates his “exploits”.
In most western democracies sentences are served in parallel, not consecutively. The US is one of a few crazy places where people get sentences like 3.000+ years, or 161 life sentences.
In the US, prison sentences can be consecutive or concurrent. It’s up to each sentencing (as provided for by law).
And not from old age