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French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults

Posted by timothy on from the ok-fellas-time's-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a real life Prisoner's Dilemma taking place in the French city of Marseille, twin brothers have been arrested for a string of sexual assaults. While say they are sure that one of them committed the crimes (corroborated by a standard DNA test), police were told that it would cost upwards of €1m euros (£850,000, $1.3m USD) to distinguish between them using DNA evidence."

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  1. Re:Coercion by Gordonjcp · · Score: 1, Troll

    You've got the whole culture of prison rape thing, and you have the highest prison population of any country because your increasingly insane "War on Drugs" means that people get long prison sentences for possessing the kind of amounts of cannabis that the police in other countries (the UK included) wouldn't even bother confiscating (although here depending on how arsey the police officers involved are, they might make you throw it in a bin, and pretend not to notice if you fish it out once they've gone up the street a bit).

    You may not have "communal stoning" in the sense that you actually throw rocks at people, but you do have a strong mob mentality and the drive to ruin people's lives over minor infractions. For example, there are people right now in America who are on the sex offender register because they were naked in their own back garden. These people are denied the right to vote, and denied most jobs, simply because *someone* decided to call the police because of something they were doing in private. I think that's pretty close.

    Honour killings you *probably* don't have, but you do have a culture where people subscribe to this Roy Rogers fantasy where if they carry a gun and someone tries to mug them, they can just shoot the bad guy's gun right out of his hand and everything will be okay. Police officers who carry guns have to spend a hell of a lot of time on the range practicing, and they probably can't do that. What's the bets that these "guns make us safer" nutcases couldn't even hit their assailant, and end up injuring someone else - or worse?