Three former Ubisoft executives are convicted of sexual and psychological harassment

A tribunal successful France has sentenced 3 erstwhile Ubisoft executives for intersexual and intelligence harassment. Serge Hascoet, Tommy Francois, and Guillaume Patrux each received fines and suspended situation sentences for their actions that were discovered arsenic a portion of a years-long probe into intersexual harassment and bullying astatine the crippled publisher.

 According to The Guardian, Hascoet, Ubisoft’s erstwhile main originative officer, allegedly  commented that a pistillate employee’s temper could beryllium improved if idiosyncratic were to person enactment with her successful bid to, “show however to calm her.” Francois, Ubisoft’s erstwhile editorial vice president, was additionally convicted of attempted intersexual battle arsenic good arsenic intersexual harassment related to an alleged incidental wherever helium tried to forcefully buss a pistillate worker astatine a enactment portion colleagues held her down. Patrux, a erstwhile crippled director, was alleged to person thrown furnishings successful open-plan bureau space, throwing different objects astatine employees, and drafting swastikas connected a colleague’s notebook.

Investigations into Ubisoft began successful 2020 arsenic a portion of the #metoo question successful video games. Current and erstwhile employees took to societal media successful June 2020 to picture harmful incidents and attitudes astatine the Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed developer that spanned decades. An internal survey conducted astatine that time reported that retired of 14,000 employees surveyed, 25 percent had seen oregon experienced workplace misconduct, portion 20 percent said they did not consciousness harmless oregon respected astatine the company.

In the aftermath, respective Ubisoft executives, including Hascoet, resigned portion others, including Francois, were fired. In 2023, 5 erstwhile employees, including Hascoet and Francois, were arrested by French police pursuing an probe into the company.

According to French paper Le Monde, Francois blamed institution civilization astatine Ubisoft for his behavior, saying helium was a portion of a civilization that was “everywhere, successful each department” and that helium didn’t deliberation it was “abnormal.”

The Verge has reached retired to Ubisoft for comment.