France Telecom bosses face verdict over wave of suicides eNCA
Between 2008 to 2009, 35 employees of the former state-owned telecom giant, now called Orange, took their own lives.PARIS - A French court will rule on Friday whether the former CEO of France Telecom and other executives carried out"institutional harassment" that sparked a spate of suicides at the company.
Prosecutors sought a one-year prison term for former chief Didier Lombard and the maximum fine of 15,000 euros during a trial that wrapped up in July. "What is unacceptable is that harassment was a strategy in one of the country's biggest companies," prosecutor Brigitte Pesquie told the court.
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