Three former executives sentenced to sentences up to three years in suspended prison sentence

The Bobigny Criminal Court sentenced. Therefore, Wednesday, July 2, sentences up to three years in prison sentence with three former Ubisoft executives for moral or sexual harassment in the video game giant.

Available guilty of moral. Meanwhile, sexual harassment and a sexual assault attempt, Thomas François, former vice-president of the editorial service of the French flagship of the video game, was sentenced to three years in prison suspended and 30,000 euros fine. Nevertheless, Ubisoft’s ex-Numéro 2, Serge Hascoët was sentenced to 18 months suspended prison sentence and a 45,000 euros fine. Nevertheless, Former “Game Director”, Guillaume Patrux was sentenced to 12 months suspended prison sentence and 10,000 euros fine.

Among the facts alleged against the former vice-president of the editorial service of Ubisoft: forcing a young woman in a skirt to make the pear in the middle of the open space. Nevertheless, launching « bitch » or “Cod” By way of salvation, “play” “cat-bed” or embrace male colleagues by surprise. Consequently, The “UBI culture” was a ordeal for the handful of young people who have broken the silence. filed a complaint in this file which is a metoo of video games.

By constituting civil parties. a small solidarity group was formed and strengthened over the painful testimonies and interrogations collected by the Bobigny Criminal Court during the hearing.

“This is also what we see in the films”

Thomas François. who was between 38 and 46 years old at the time of the facts selected by the courts between 2012 and 2020, confessed to the bar to have “Missed back” Because he had had “At the time, the impression of being with respect for people”. As for sexist words. degrading hazing which took place a few meters from his glass office, Serge Hascoët told court never being aware of it.

Ubisoft number three former executives sentenced sentences 2 in his capacity as creative director. he had resigned in the summer of 2020 as soon as daily surveys Libération and online media Numerama had revealed the work universe.

The court was able to note the difficulties that the man. now 60 years old, could have to separate privacy and professional life, assigning his employees to personal tasks unrelated to their skills such as going to seek his youngest daughter of six years three former executives sentenced sentences at the end of the school or cross Paris to buy peanuts with hulls … Despite their function as assistants, they were forced to these “Caprices” as the prosecution qualified. “This is also what we see in the films”. defended Serge Hascoët in court, the president of which, laid down, had to point out that “Films is not reality”.

In his indictment, the prosecutor had said that Mr. Patrux’s moral harassment had been “On a smaller scale than Serge Hascoët. Thomas François, but particularly intense for his team”.

During the trial. the defense lawyers kept repeating that their customers had never received “No disciplinary warning, no maintenance with HR”.

To the chagrin of all parties. neither the Ubisoft legal person, three former executives sentenced sentences nor his CEO Yves Guillemot or his human resources manager Marie Derain has been the subject of prosecution in this file.