A French court handed four-month jail terms and fines to the former chief and other executives of France Telecom over a campaign of employee harassment blamed for a spate of suicides
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In 2008 and 2009, 35 employees of the former state-owned telecom giant took their own lives as managers embarked on a vast restructuring plan that included cutting 22,000 jobs, or nearly one in five. Prosecutors sought a one-year prison term for Lombard and the maximum fine of 15,000 euros during a trial that wrapped up in July.
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