The former CEO and other top management are accused of ‘moral harassment’, leading to the deaths of 35 employees between 2008 and 2009
Former France Telecom Chief Executive Didier Lombard looks on during a presentation of France Telecom 2009 results in Paris. Picture: FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFPA decade after a wave of suicides at France Telecom in which 35 employees took their own lives, the telecoms giant and its former CEO go on trial Monday for “moral harassment”.
Also in the dock on the same charge are the company’s former number two Louis-Pierre Wenes and the former head of human resources Olivier Barberot. Unions and management accept that 35 France Telecom employees took their own lives between 2008 and 2009, and Lombard stepped down as a result of the deaths.
During the investigation, magistrates focused on the cases of 39 employees, 19 of whom killed themselves, 12 who tried to commit suicide and eight who suffered from acute depression or were signed off sick as a result of it.
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