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  • This crops up every once so often. Not even on the national news but for some reason international media like to report on it.

    Of course there are rumors about the Antwerp harbor, and of politicians being involved along with real estate developers, but the cops are not incentivized to investigate that. Instead they are told focus on low-level drug dealers in Brussels because that’s easier to smear all over the local news to worry have people about the ‘drugs problem’, all for the next increase of police budgets and erosion of civil rights.








  • Are these sentences slaps on the wrist or proper ones similar to those for regular people?

    I remember the whole show about Sarkozy in France: after the full 20 days in jail he was back to chilling poolside at one of his mansions with an ankle monitor.

    Urdangarin:

    In June 2018 he was sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in prison; he was initially imprisoned in Ávila, but as of 2021 he was on supervised release.

    Pantoja:

    She only served around 15 months

    Muñoz:

    After nearly two years behind bars he was released from prison in 2008 but was arrested again in 2013 for other offenses related to Operation Malaya.[4] Due to poor health stemming from his having diabetes mellitus type 1 he was in a less restricted degree of incarceration since May 2016

    Right. Seems the same protocol there: convict them for their most minimal crime, do a show stint in a prison. Or allow them “exile” in Dubai like that king. This is not the same justice system as the plebeian one.






  • Very true!! Such a simple behavioural change would help massively, if only in setting the proper example, so local business leaders might follow the example, and also in giving the proper signal to the people to at least think twice about this.

    The same goes for most schools: e.g. HOGent runs everything on Microsoft, thus training the pupils to be locked into the vendor ecosystem and to regard it as normal. Very disturbing.