Besides accusations of heavy-handedness and abuse of preventive detention, critics accuse Mr Bruguiere and his colleagues of not giving defendants a fair chance.
All this may work for a bit, but thrifty German consumers will not be kept away from bargain telephony for ever, and heavy-handedness stokes public hostility to the company.
And though Hamas is indeed losing popularity in Gaza, thanks partly to its own heavy-handedness against Fatah, nobody has yet thought up a plausible method for removing it from power.
Despite the usual complaints about government heavy-handedness from Republicans and business lobbyists, the House bill contains none of the expected attempts to impose detailed limits on the size or structure of pay that would merit such alarm.