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L’Informed states that the Bobigny court is prosecuting three former managers of the video game publisher’s “editorial” department, including the group’s former creative director, following an investigation conducted by the judicial police.
During the summer of 2020, many employees of the French video game giant Ubisoft spoke on social networks or in the press to testify about acts of moral and sexual harassment in Europe and the Atlantic. Three and a half years later, Bobigny’s court decided to prosecute three former managers who worked at Ubisoft’s world headquarters, which was then located in Montreal (Seine-Saint-Denis), which provides information. A trial date will be set in early February.
A judicial police investigation began after a complaint lodged by two victims with the Solidaires Informatique Union. At the end of this the three men have the suspect “Creates an environment that encourages abusive and insulting comments and behavior“
The accused was working in the department.Editorial” This service is responsible for setting up “Editorial italics» as well as the main creative directions of Ubisoft Productions. like, “Editorial» Can force or, conversely, end projects currently under development.
Ubisoft has not sued management
Two former strongmen of this service, who left Ubisoft during the summer of 2020, will be judged. Serge Haskot, the group’s creative director since 2000 and then considered Ubisoft’s unofficial No. 2, is being prosecuted for moral and sexual harassment against some women in his department, as well as “Public bullying and humiliation of employees” Among the facts cited by l’Informed, rude words and gestures, or photos of pigs placed in the wallpaper of Muslim religious associates.
His right-hand man, Tommy Francois, is accused of “Rude comments of a sexual nature», comments on the body of his collaborators such as “Cod“,”ugly“or”Hottie”, and insults. Among the alleged facts listed lists that “ Ordering an employee wearing a skirt to do a handstand in an open space, starting pornographic films on the computer, sticking a marker in the employee’s face, practicing regularly “Cat Dick” Or surprisingly “playing” at kissing colleagues on the mouth.
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A third manager, who has not been named, is being prosecuted for moral harassment. Among the facts maintained by the prosecution, “Threatened to kill a colleague or held a lighter to a colleague’s beard”The informant suggests.
The complaint filed by Solidaires Informatique also targeted the management of the Ubisoft group for identifying the systemic nature of the toxic corporate culture. The Bobigny public prosecutor’s office did not follow this path.
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