US Edition"A boys' club above the law." Former Ubisoft bosses face trial in France for sexual harassment and aggressive conduct. Here are the allegations.
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The defence lawyers tried to reject the responsibilities on the company as a legal person. The prosecutor requested up to three years' suspended imprisonment against the defendants, Tommy François, Serge Hascoët and Guillaume Patrux, accused of moral and sexual harassment.
Three former executives of the French subsidiary of Ubisoft, some of whom were very high-ranking, appeared this week in the Bobigny Correctional Court to answer charges of sexual harassment, moral harassment and sexual assault.
Serge Hascoët (right), former creative director of Ubisoft, and his lawyer, at the Bobigny Correctional Court, June 2, 2025. XAVIER GALIANA/AFP "Nothing justifies harassment: neither creation, nor transgression, nor the imperatives of production, nor personal difficulties." At the trial of former executives of Ubisoft, the prosecutor of the Bobigny Correctional Court requested, on Thursday, June 5, sentences of up to three years' suspended impri…
The trial of three former Ubisoft executives accused of sexual and moral harassment and attempted sexual assault was held this week in Bobigny. At the end of the hearings, the foreign press bears witness to an atmosphere of sexism and harassment that hides the systemic dimension of violence in the video game world.
Rarely has a trial revealed the very worrying drifts of the video game sector. On Thursday, June 5th, at the Bobigny Correctional Court (Seine-Saint-Denis), the hearings concerning the three former senior executives of U... Read more about Elle.fr
Hearings in a French case showing "an atmosphere of systemic and even institutionalized sexual harassment" well after #MeToo in a major tech company"It is an industry that has been made by men, for men, seeking to exclude women", released on Thursday one of the lawyers of the civil parties, pointing to "the virilistic and childish culture" that reigns in the video game creation studios. This "world where women always leave the company first beca…
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