French authorities have actually detained 5 previous Ubisoft execs after a years-long examination that started in 2021 adhering to issues and also claims of sexual offense and also harassment within the business, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz. Among the 5 detained are Ubisoft’s previous principal imaginative police officer, Serge Hascoët, and also previous vice head of state of content and also imaginative solutions, Tommy François.
The magazine found out of these apprehensions after French paper Libération reported that 3 previous Ubisoft execs were detained the other day, with 2 even more detained today.
The summertime of 2020 noted a transforming factor within Ubisoft after many records emerged pertaining to misuse, misbehavior, and also power corruption taking place within the business. Various execs and also supervisors, consisting of François, were terminated therefore; Hascoët willingly surrendered.
At the moment, Ubisoft CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Yves Guillemot revealed he was leading the business’s fee for the examinations, later on openly releasing outcomes of a current interior worker study. That study disclosed that more than 25 percent of employees at the company witnessed or experienced first-hand misconduct at work. An out of proportion variety of the workers that reported misbehavior were either non-binary or ladies, yet males at the business were additionally singing concerning experiencing misbehavior.
Even though numerous execs, like François, Ashraf Ismail, and also Maxime Beland, were terminated, with others willingly tipping down like Hascoët, a 2021 record disclosed that many Ubisoft employees were unhappy with how leadership at the company handled its “Me Too” moment.
In the summertime of 2021, the Paris-based Solidaires Informatique union and also 2 targets submitted issues with authorities, as kept in mind by GamesIndustry.biz. Years later on, French authorities have actually detained François, Hascoët, and also 3 even more people. The apprehensions and also the succeeding situation is being dealt with by the Bobigny area of Paris.
GamesIndustry.biz keeps in mind that the complainant’s legal representative, Maude Beckers, informed Libération that the situation exceeds private habits and also “reveals systemic sexual violence.” A Ubisoft agent informed GamesIndustry.biz that “Ubisoft has no knowledge of what has been shared and therefore can’t comment.”
Game Informer will certainly upgrade this tale if it discovers more concerning this continuous situation.
[Source: Libération via GamesIndustry.biz]
