Greek cleaner sentenced to 10 years for adding 1 year to primary school record

[muriel_volestrangler]

Last edited Wed Nov 28, 2018, 01:07 PM - Edit history (1)

Over-reaction much?

Greece's Supreme Court is to review a court ruling that saw a cleaning lady sentenced to 10 years in jail for exaggerating her primary school record, reports say.

The 53-year-old, who had worked in a nursery for 15 years, was found to have altered a certificate to show she had completed six years of primary school when in fact she had done only five.

A regional court then sentenced her on charges of defrauding the public.

The case has caused uproar in Greece.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46310804

Update: Sentence suspended: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46376806

[secondwind]

1. wow

[RKP5637]

2. WTF, just WTF. This is gross insanity. n/t

[RKP5637]

3. Imagine how many years Trump the liar would get ... can't count that high. n/t

[rpannier]

4. The answer is zero

Because he has money
I'm willing to bet that if this had been a banker, a prominent politico, news reader, etc they'd never have prosecuted it

[RKP5637]

5. Good point and probably quite true! Money talks and has power, the rest of us just talk. n/t

[thucythucy]

7. "Money doesn't talk, it swears."--Bob Dylan

[Takket]

6. I was going to say 8th amendment

Until I saw this is Greece. Do they have an equivalent there???

[LisaL]

8. That's nuts.

She wasn't pretending to be someone where education is a must, like a doctor.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

9. WTF???