Suspect in Finnish psychotherapy center blackmail hack arrested

French police have arrested a 25-year-old Finnish man accused of hacking a psychotherapy clinic, stealing more than 22,000 patients' therapy notes, demanding ransom payments from them and also leaking this very private info on a Tor website. The suspect, who was arrested on February 3, remains in French custody while he awaits …

[Wyrdness]

Re: Arrested in Absentia

It's not Arrested in Absentia unless it's from the Absentia region of France. Otherwise it's just a sparkling arrest warrant.

But have you considered that this is a translation from Finnish and it may have a subtly different meaning to the English definition that you've quoted.

[cawfee]

Re: Arrested in Absentia

A fine vintage, in the form of a joke about champagne

[Jedit]

"I'm not a wine drinker, unless it's MD 20/20 out of a brown paper bag"

How do you drink wine out of a paper bag? Surely the bag will get soaked and collapse.

[F. Frederick Skitty]

Re: Arrested in Absentia

My understanding is that an "arrest in absentia" means a trial can proceed if necessary without the physical presence of a suspect and the statute of limitations doesn't impact the ability to sentence someone.

[IGotOut]

Re: Arrested in Absentia

The issue is, you are using an English dictionary definition to question a phrase from a foreign language. It may be a literal translation, but have a completely different meaning in the native tongue. A in the complexities of a different legal system (look up the Julian Assange questioning for an example) and it probably makes a lot more sense.

[Terje]

My guess, is that this is one step up from an arrest, and has probably passed by a judge that have ordered the suspect to be detained during the investigation

[cantankerous swineherd]

psychotherapist with a computer is a definite red flag.