Fedina penale dei politici francesi ordinati per anno, partito politico e reato

I am ashamed to ask this but how does one read this chart? I don’t get the symmetrical years, why there are bubbles between 1990 and 1990 and what it shows in general.

What’s the 1 year/3 years/5 years thing?

Is that length of prison sentence?

If so how are criminal convictions that didn’t result in a prison sentence (like a fine or community service) handled?

How are people who committed multiple crimes handled?

Gaston get the Guilliottine, the big One..

Explanation:

The author used LLM to filter and sum up wikipedia, to get a list of judgements against french politicians.

It is placed on a left-right political spectrum like in our parlement, but all dates are mixed up. The blue and pink used to be very big parties in the past but not anymore. Orange disapeared completly. Purple, light-blue and black are new parties existing since only about 10 years or less. Macron’s party is light-blue.

The size of the buble is how big the sentence was. If a person is sentenced multiples times in multiple cases, it creates multiple bubbles.

Imperfections: some data was missing, which is expected because this is just an AI collecting data from wikipedia. This is mixing up all kinds of politicians, elected in all kinds of positions. the author seems to add new bubbles with time, probably because people are giving him new information now that his site is becoming popular. The author is known to be left leaning.

Right wing guys on the right of the picture, leftists on the left. As you sadly can see, you can be a politician in France while being a criminal.

This chart is of course a piece of propaganda trying to dumb down discussion such as “size of circle” shall be interpreted as gravity which is absolutely not the case.

For instance yesterday on the news we had someone who took 3 years sentence for killing 3 people while drunk driving: is it better or worth than those 5 years sentences ?

Also it’s not a current politic snapshot, it’s tying together political figure from the last 35 years.
Most circle represents people that have been removed/kicked from their respective parties, or attributed to parties for fact that happened when they were part of other parties. A lot of the circle represent persons not currently working as deputee anymore, and yet some of those circles represent current deputees.

So it’s highly beneficial to younger political formations like LFI.
Also it’s making some shady political attribution, most condamnation of people attributed to LREM (Macron – centrist) are for fact that happened before they joined the centrist formation (Karl Olive about Poissy city 10 years prior, Mustapha Laabid for facts prior to 2017 when he got invested by LREM) etc etc…

So it’s more propaganda than anything else.

“There you go, the sin of the son are the sins of the fathers, look at those bad people”
It’s so lame and missleading.

We’re gonna flag Germany Bundestag as all a bunch of Nazis? Where does relevant history starts? who decides?…

Wait how are you able to run for office if you have a criminal record? Is that allowed in France? That’s surprising, unless many countries don’t have those barriers in place?

What are those empty spaces? Parties without anyone convicted?

Well, well, well…

“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?”

“Why?”

“It saves time.”

– from The Last Continent, Sir Terry Pratchett

I don’t believe this graph for a second, sorry. Just this week a far left (LFI) MP was condemned for diffamation. I can guarantee you there must be some heavy massaging of the data and you can easily guess who did it.

Edit: conveniently OP is not letting anyone see their post status, you know exactly why.

La méthodologie est catastrophique et favorise à 100% les partis les plus jeunes. Je m’explique :

Si je prends (sur le site) en filtrant les années 2020 à 2027 et sur le RN, toutes les affaires de JMLP apparaissent alors que ça faisait longtemps qu’il n’était plus député. en gros plus un parti a une longue histoire et plus il a eu de députés dans le temps plus il va apparaître fortement parce qu’ils comptent tous les anciens députés, donc un parti comme LR qui n’a q’une centaine de députés actuellement, en a eu plusieurs milliers dans le passé et donc à chaque fois qu’un ancien député est condamné il apparaît. à l’inverse, un parti comme LFI est très récent et donc a eu moins de parlementaires avec des carrières moins longue, donc mathématiquement ils sont moins représentés.

Hahahahaha well done!

Ah, the chart that show something useless