Rainbow Six Siege cheater who swatted Ubisoft Montreal with a fake hostage call gets a three-year community sentence

that allows people convicted of some non-violent crimes to serve their time outside of prison—by a court in France.hostage situation

" at Ubisoft Montreal led to a major, day-long police operation. Ultimately, no hostages were found, and fortunately no one was injured; after it was determined that the call was false, Montreal Police said it would launch an investigation to"shed light on the call.", a French citizen and Rainbow Six Siege player who had been banned from the game multiple times for cheating and abusing developers and other players.

"We acknowledge the court’s decision," Ubisoft Montreal said in a statement."In this trial we were committed to representing the interests of our employees who were affected by this false hostage-taking alert at our Montreal studio. It was important for us to denounce this violent and unacceptable incident.

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