Overview

• The Bobigny court found three former Ubisoft executives guilty of enabling a workplace culture of sexual and psychological harassment.
• Thomas François was handed a three-year suspended prison term and fined €30,000 after being convicted of sexual harassment, psychological harassment and attempted sexual assault.
• Serge Hascoët received an 18-month suspended sentence and a €45,000 fine for psychological harassment and complicity in sexual harassment, while Guillaume Patrux got a 12-month suspension and a €10,000 fine for bullying.
• Court evidence and a 2020 internal survey detailed systemic abuses including forced humiliations, compulsory handstands, pornography in open-plan offices and Islamophobic pranks.
• State prosecutor Antoine Haushalter called the ruling a turning point for the gaming industry’s #MeToo movement and appeals are expected.