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[martinuzz]

Former French president Sarkozy has been sentenced to 3 years prison time, of which 1 year is probational, for corruption.

[scriver]

Hoeuvli Shiet, I hadn't even heard he was on trial.

[hector13]

Yeah he was a bad man.

Apparently still popular in conservative circles, which speaks rather poorly of French conservatives.

Too bad he can serve his sentence under house arrest rather than in an actual jail, but at least they prosecuted him I guess.

[Loud Whispers]

Former French president Sarkozy has been sentenced to 3 years prison time, of which 1 year is probational, for corruption.

Poor guy, sent to his luxury villa with his supermodel wife and ill-gotten gains, how will we manage

[feelotraveller]

Poor guy, sent to his luxury villa with his supermodel wife and ill-gotten gains, how will we manage
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Or he might be in a decade or two when the appeals process has run its course. 
Probably best for us to make merry whilst he is trash in the media 'cause no telling if he'll actually serve his 'confined to mansion for a year' notional wrist slap.

[martinuzz]

The German Secret Service (BfV) has declared Germany's largest opposition party (88 out of 709 seats in the Bundestag), 'Alternative für Deutschland' to be an 'extreme right organisation that threatens the German constitution'. 
This means that they can now legally spy on, and use covert surveillance operations against the party's poiticians and members like they can with terrorists.

According to the BfV, they have made a file on the party thousands of pages long.  On the basis of what AfD politicians have said on party meetings, and on social media, they have concluded that the party is a threat to the democratic order.

[bloop_bleep]

The German Secret Service (BfV) has declared Germany's largest opposition party (88 out of 709 seats in the Bundestag), 'Alternative für Deutschland' to be an 'extreme right organisation that threatens the German constitution'. 
This means that they can now legally spy on, and use covert surveillance operations against the party's poiticians and members like they can with terrorists.

According to the BfV, they have made a file on the party thousands of pages long.  On the basis of what AfD politicians have said on party meetings, and on social media, they have concluded that the party is a threat to the democratic order.

Without additional context this feels concerning.

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[scriver]

Knife attack near me today, 8 people injured, some of them gravely. The police is investigating it as a possible terror attack.

If this happened in any of the big three this would have gotten special news break treatment and had the entire evening news designated to it. We barely get a minute.

[martinuzz]

If it's any consolation, it did make front page news in my Volkskrant

[scriver]

Thanks, but on second thought it was probably a little unseemly that people were hurt and that was my first reaction.

Late news didn't reveal much more, but phrasing made it seem like one or more of the victims has passed. Police originally did not suspect terrorism, but added the suspicion during the day, so it appear it may be because of something they've found during the day. Newspapers in Sweden don't usually publish identities very fast (at least not the ones I view) so not much about him is known to me yet besides him being 20 year old. According to this paywalled article (that I accessed by quick cancelling of the page loading) he was registered in Sweden in 2018, and interviewed people from his surroundings say they think he was mentally in a very bad shape and allegedly in contact with social services. So I'm leaning towards a madness deed for now.

[ChairmanPoo]

Doesnt make it non-terrorism. Thing about these knife attacks is that they are a very low cost form of terrorism. Just set up a webpage asking people to kill in the name of and if you reach enough people eventually some lunatic bordering a breakdown will take you up for it.

[Kagus]

kill in the name of

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me

[Loud Whispers]

Knife attack near me today, 8 people injured, some of them gravely. The police is investigating it as a possible terror attack.

If this happened in any of the big three this would have gotten special news break treatment and had the entire evening news designated to it. We barely get a minute.

Guardian news reporting it was a man with an axe, not a knife

Vikings are back?

[ChairmanPoo]

Knife attack near me today, 8 people injured, some of them gravely. The police is investigating it as a possible terror attack.

If this happened in any of the big three this would have gotten special news break treatment and had the entire evening news designated to it. We barely get a minute.

Guardian news reporting it was a man with an axe, not a knife

Vikings are back?

Doesnt make it non-terrorism. Thing about these axe attacks is that they are a very low cost form of terrorism. Just set up a webpage asking people to whack someone with an axe in the name of and if you reach enough people eventually some lunatic bordering a breakdown will take you up for it.