(USA Today)
A law that dates back to 1888 allowed the two Brussels bombing suspects to be released from prison earlier. Ibrahim El Bakraoui was sentenced to 10 years for shooting at a police officer in 2010. He served four years and nine months before being let go. And Khalid El Bakraoui served three years of a five-year sentence for a 2011 armed robbery before he was set free in 2013. They both violated the terms of their release but by that time the police couldn't find them. The brothers would still be serving their sentences were it not for the law Lejeune, named for Belgian justice minister Jules Le Jeune, who introduced it in 1888. The law allows inmates to be released from prison after they served a third of their sentence.
It’s sad that one political decision made in the 1800s may have cost a couple hundred lives today. If those guys are still locked up like they should be, they would still be alive and so would everyone at the airport that day. Now about the law, i know it was in the 1800s and they thought differently and things were different but it still sounds like a very stupid law. If you rape someone and get thrown away for 30 years but serve a third of that sentence they let you out? Doesn't seem right. It makes me think about our constitution, drafted in 1787 may have some flaws that could hurt us tremendously, you could argue it has already happened with guns. Many people believe if that wasn't written in the constitution then guns would be outlawed and no one would have a problem with it.
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Honestly never heard of that ever, very thought provoking. You can definitely say that about a lot of things, but loopholes like this make me question legal systems.
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