Legal Niches

Player Knifed in CS, Waits 7 Months, Returns Favor in Real Life

By pete_gallagher

Seven months after being knifed virtually in an online round of Counter-Strike, a 20-year old French gamer tracked down his online assailer and stabbed him in the chest.

Julien Barreaux hunted down his victim, identified only as Mikhael, after falling under his knife in a November 2009 game of CS, according to the Telegraph. It turned out that Mikhael lived only a 'few miles' from Barreaux, who visited the house and stabbed Mikhael in the chest when he answered the door, just missing his heart. Mikhael apparently survived the attack.

Barreaux was arrested within an hour of the attack and sentenced to two years in jail, and also will be forced to undergo psychiatric tests. The attacker was dubbed a 'menace to society' by Judge Alexiane Potel, who added, 'I am frankly terrified of the disproportionate reaction you could have if someone looked at you the wrong way in the street.'

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 01, 2010 (boomark / email).