A French player who was banned from the Rainbow 6 video game for cheating has been sentenced for his role in creating a hoax hostage crisis at the Ubisoft office in Montreal and calling the police to report it. After getting information that “dozens” of employees were being taken hostage at the Ubisoft Montreal facility in 2020, the police responded by storming the building.
Following several tense hours, it was finally established that this was an elaborate hoax, and the authorities promised to track down the person responsible for it. Also, Yanni Ouahioune, age 22, a prominent Rainbow 6 cheater who went under the gamer moniker ‘Y4nnOXX,’ has been convicted and jailed in Paris. Y4nnOXX was Yanni’s online gaming handle.
A player who was banned for making false hostage claims against Ubisoft has been sentenced
The events in the city in Canada were reportedly one of the three instances that were separated throughout the trial, as reported by the Montreal Gazette. The judge ordered that Ouahioune would serve a three-year prison sentence and be required to “compensate” his victim by the ruling. A self-help program must also be completed for him, and he must either begin working immediately or begin training to be able to do so.
On the other hand, it is said that Ouahioune had already been participating in psychological treatment for several years before the atrocities he committed. Also, the fact that Ouahioune has been barred from play several times in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is the motivation behind the hoax hostage call. Complex claims that he placed the call from his parent’s home and that the call was routed through servers located in Russia.
A DDoS assault was launched against a government office, and he is also accused of issuing threats against the makers of Minecraft. These charges come on top of the deception he perpetrated against Ubisoft. This is not even close to being the first time a ban has led to a player acting out. After being banned from the platform, a speedrunner going by the name ‘narcissawright’ for Zelda: Ocarina of Time threatened to “shoot people” at Twitch.
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