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Wow, what a great story! I'm surprised the thief only served seven months in jail. I can't imagine it being that lenient today.

• reitzensteinm 17y ago
  I was half expecting some crazy penalty like life imprisonment or death. Made me realise how out of touch I am with early 19th century Europe!
  • graywh 17y ago
    20th century
    • reitzensteinm 17y ago
      OK that's embarrassing!
  • barmstrong 17y ago
    Yep, well also...it was a victimless crime. No one was physically harmed. Or maybe they give leniency for the "dude - you have balls of steel" factor...
• CamperBob 17y ago
  Things would've gone a bit harder for him if he'd been extradited to France, I suspect. In Italy, he could play up the Ollie North angle ("I'm a patriot, dammit!")
  • someperson 17y ago
    It makes me feel uncomfortable that sentences for crimes are orders of magnitude different depending on where you are being tried. I guess different communities have different weightings on certain crimes.
    • aerique 17y ago
      /me shoots some heroin into his eyeball
    • drp 17y ago
      Assassinate a world leader and you're a criminal in his home country but a hero to his enemies.
  • gamble 17y ago
    Italy in 1913 was nominally an ally of Germany and Austria, but in truth more closely allied with France. It's possible that the French and Italian authorities wanted to avoid a public spectacle that would inflame nationalists in both countries and make it more difficult to keep Italy a defacto French ally.