Years to reduce, insult or sexualize colleagues under the appearance of what it was for them “culture of Ubisoft”: three former executives of the video game company were sentenced to Bobigny on Wednesday to three years in a suspended prison.
The figure of the company before being fired for serious misconduct after the revelation of the scandal in the press, Thomas François was sentenced to heavier pain, three years of suspended prison and 30,000 euros, for moral and moral harassment and an attempt of sexual aggression.
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Build a subordinate subordinate skirt subordinate to make the pear in the middle of the open space, throw “bitch” or “cod” as salvation, cat bedroom game or hug male colleagues by surprise … These were work habits of the vice president of the Almighty editorial service.
The “Ubi culture” had been a terrible experience for the handful of young people who broke the silence and presented a complaint in this file that is also me of video games.
The former Ubisoft Numéro 2, Serge Hascoët, was sentenced to 18 months of suspended prison sentence and 45,000 euros fine for moral harassment and complicity in sexual harassment. A third executive, Guillaume Patrux, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and 10,000 euros fine.
By constituting civil parties, a small group of solidarity was formed and strengthened about the painful testimonies and interrogations collected by the Criminal Court of Bobigny during the hearing last month.
Thomas François, who was between 38 and 46 years at the time of the events selected by the courts between 2012 and 2020, confessed to the helm of having “lacked the perspective” because he had “at that time, the impression of being with respect to people.”
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Sexist comments, degradation of risks that took place a few meters from his vitreous office, Serge Hascoët told the court that he never realized it.
Ubisoft number 2 As a creative director, he had resigned in the summer of 2020 as soon as daily liberation and online media surveys Normama revealed the toxicity of this universe of work.
The court has seen the difficulties that man, now 60 years old, could have to separate private and professional life, assigning his employees to personal tasks not related to his skills.
I am going to look for his sexis six -year -old daughter at the end of the OA Cross Paris school to buy peanuts with helmets … Despite their function of management attendees, these “whims” were forced as the Prosecutor’s Office described.
“This is also what we see in the films,” he defended Serge Hascoët before the court whose president, frightening, had to point out that “the films are not reality.”
In his accusation, the prosecutor had specified that the acts of moral harassment of Mr. Petrux had been “on a smaller scale than Serge Hascoët and Thomas François, but particularly intense for his team.”
During the trial, defense lawyers continued to repeat that their clients had never received “disciplinary warning, no maintenance with human resources.”
To disgust from all parties, neither the legal entity of Ubisoft, nor its CEO Yves Guillemot or its Human Resources manager, Marie Derain, have been subject to prosecution in this file.
Source: BFM TV
