[mraison]

At least in France, this article says that for similar concurrent charges (not sure how similarity is determined), the most important sentence is picked. So, max instead of sum.

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?idArticl...

[marcusverus]

This seems odd, like buy one get one one free, but for crimes. If you murder a guy in France, you can burn his house down without additional penalty?

[nikonyrh]

I am quite certain you can.

[anticensor]

That means if a particular action is a crime under multiple articles, the most serious one is chosen. Separately committed crimes are different.