Community service for doing something like that? Really. It should be jail time.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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I read the article expecting to find some mitigating circumstances, like maybe he was underage. Turns out he's 22 and that sentence includes the punishment for other swatting calls, and DDoS attacks against French government sites. This seems like a shockingly lenient sentence, but I have to acknowledge that almost everything seems shockingly lenient when you come from a place with the largest incarcerated population in the world.
3 years of community service and mandatory mental health care will probably help this dude a lot more than locking him up for 5 years with violent criminals.
Even after being charged, Ouahioune asked Canadian newspaper La Presse to unban his Rainbow Six Siege account: “Can you say that I am kindly asking the Ubisoft team to ‘unban’ my account please,” Ouahioune said. “I have put over $1,500 in cosmetic enhancements in my profile.”
Wow.
This has to be one of the stupidest consequences ever for something so serious.
Please tell me the French police slapped him upside the head a couple of times when they arrested him... please.
He took one for the team, the real criminals are Ubisoft and what they did to the game.
Brave man really justifying a SWATting here.