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I guess because it's the law, and governments are supposed to enforce the law.
by ams6110 8y ago
I guess because it's the law, and governments are supposed to enforce the law.
- anoncake 8y agoThats not a special property of France though.
- cheeze 8y agoWhy doesn't France care as much about other laws?
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- atomi 8y agoPeople write laws. They're generally lobbied for.
- ptaipale 8y agoI'm slightly baffled by the difference, though, as some other laws are not enforced. For instance, the case where directors of a tyre manufacturer were forcibly taken hostage and physically abused by the workers. Normally, you'd send in the police, arrest hostage-takers and give them long imprisonment.
- vkou 8y agoJust like when your employer commits wage theft, you call the police, they drive over, taze your boss, put him in handcuffs, and book him? After all, that's what I would expect should happen to a regular thief. Do you also expect that industrial executives, managers, and everyone down to the line workers get booked on terrorism charges, for poisoning our water supplies, if they are caught illegally polluting?
- kmlx 8y ago"Do you also expect that industrial executives, managers, and everyone down to the line workers get booked on terrorism charges, for poisoning our water supplies, if they are caught illegally polluting?" Not the original poster, but Yes, of course. Who doesn't expect that?
- vkou 8y ago> Who doesn't expect that? People who have any experience with how the real world works. At best, the company may get a token fine, with the people giving the orders, and carrying them out never getting held accountable. At worst, much hooing and hawwing is had about how important <the industry> is, and how <the company> pinky swears that it will never do what they did again.
- kmlx 8y agojust because reality is ruined at the moment doesn't mean i shouldn't expect the law to work. plus, we get CEOs sent to jail all the time, so it's not like there's no precedent.
- petre 8y agoThey have very big and powerful unions that could call for a general strike and paralyse the country. So rather than sending SWAT teams to shoot people, they negotiate.
- alexis_fr 8y agoYes, that was appalling. I guess the directors were expecting the SWAT/GIGN to come, but hours passed and they had to sign documents, and the signature was deemed valid. I don’t even know if the directors were fed or could gonto the bathrooms during that hostage situation. Torture at its best.
- seszett 8y agoYou don't have to look very hard to find better examples of "torture" than being kept for a whole day within an office (with access to the bathrooms obviously, nobody was forced to pee in their pants).
- alexis_fr 8y agoA whole week, if I remember. Then again, when it’s not enforced and when you know how violent union people can be, you don’t know how long you’ll stay there, and if you will get out alive at all. You only know when it’s over. What I’m furious about is that the signature should have been considered under duress. It was not.
- seszett 8y agoYou're implying that the hostage takers where not arrested or given imprisonment, but in the case of the Goodyear employees they were arrested and sentenced to 24 months imprisonment (15 months suspended). That's what the victim party had asked for too, so I don't understand what problem there is with this judgment?
- ptaipale 8y agoThanks - I did not know that. The hostage-taking did make headlines internationally, any subsequent trial less so.