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Durov has a French passport, so he will be charged as a French citizen. What is weird is that he sure knew that he was on the watchlist in France, though he has
by k1ndl1 2y ago
Durov has a French passport, so he will be charged as a French citizen. What is weird is that he sure knew that he was on the watchlist in France, though he has chosen to go there. Why?
- artembugara 2y agoI don’t understand how his passport changes the whole thing? France can and will charge anyone on its territory no matter what passport you hold.
- martinbaun 2y agoUsually courts are a lot more lenient with foreign citizens. Try to get jailed in Mexico as an French citizen - pretty hard unless you do obvious bad stuff.
- raverbashing 2y agoFor minor stuff, sure For more complicated stuff, quite the opposite.
- qingcharles 2y agoFrom what I've seen, it's the opposite. Nobody wants an outsider coming into their territory and committing a crime. And it also makes you a flight risk, so that's going to factor badly into any pre-trial detention.
- lmm 2y ago> Nobody wants an outsider coming into their territory and committing a crime. Right but they don't want to deal with them either. They'll deport someone and ban them from entry (which can often be done essentially at will) rather than putting them through the whole legal process and potentially dealing with protests from their country of citizenship.
- qingcharles 2y agoThis is absolutely true, also. In fact, in Illinois there is a specific statute to cover this. The Dept of Corrections can simply dispose of someone's sentence and hand them to ICE for deportation. I knew a Mexican guy who had a 6 year term and I heard from him 6 weeks after he was sentenced -- he was back with his family in Mexico, having had his sentence terminated and quickly deported.
- e12e 2y agoOther comments mentioned France doesn't extradite citizens.
- qayxc 2y agoHybris. Some people once they have reached a certain level of status and wealth see themselves as untouchable.