Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has been summoned to seem earlier than a French court docket, following a trial wherein three former executives have been discovered responsible of office harassment in June.
In that trial, Serge Hascoët, Tommy François, and Guillaume Patrux have been all given fines and suspended sentences ranging between twelve months and three years, after being convicted based mostly on accusations together with sexual misconduct, bullying and systemic racism. All three both resigned or have been dismissed from Ubisoft following stories of their conduct in 2020.
Now, the commerce union Solidaires Informatique and 4 different people, who have been all concerned in that authentic trial, have filed a subpoena instructing Guillemot to seem earlier than the Brobigny District Court docket on October 1. As reported by French information community BFM TV (by way of VGC), the summons is in relation to that trial.
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In an announcement to VGC, Ubisoft confirmed it had acquired summons from the union and associated events to seem earlier than the court docket, specifying that “these are the identical civil events and this summons relies on the identical info as these within the case judged by the court docket this previous June, following an investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace.”
Ubisoft added that “After that investigation, and opposite to the civil events’ requests, the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace determined that there have been no grounds to provoke felony proceedings in opposition to Ubisoft or its administration, a choice it confirmed throughout its closing arguments on the listening to final June.”
Ubisoft concluded by saying it will “proceed to cooperate with the justice system on this matter, because it has performed over the previous 5 years within the assessment of the info associated to this case.”
Hascoët, previously Ubisoft’s chief inventive officer, acquired an 18-month suspended sentence and a superb of €40,000/$47,190, after being discovered responsible of “psychological harassment and complicity in sexual harassment.” Based on each court docket testimony and an inside Ubisoft investigation, staff beneath Hascoët have been subjected to racial slurs and Islamophobic pranks.
François, in the meantime, was convicted on fees of sexual misconduct and tried sexual assault, accused of attempting to forcibly kiss an worker who was restrained throughout a vacation occasion. The previous vp of editorial and inventive providers acquired a heavier suspended sentence of three-years and a superb of €30,000/$35,340. Former sport director Patrux acquired a 12-month suspended time period and a €10,000/$11,800 superb. His sentencing described his bullying as “smaller scale” however “notably intense”.
In Could, it was reported that Guillemot and Ubisoft’s human assets director Marie Derain can be summoned to testify within the authentic trial. However Ubisoft denied this report, stating that “Neither Ubisoft, Yves, nor anybody from our HR group are events to those proceedings.”
Along with its assertion responding to the summons, Ubisoft’s government vp Cecile Russeil stated “Our high precedence is to make sure absolutely the safety of the bodily and ethical integrity of its staff, via a coverage of prevention and 0 tolerance with regard to sexual or ethical harassment, sexist behaviour, assault, insult, or discrimination of any type.”
