Watch angry Air France staff storm meeting, strip shirts of executives
Striking workers have stormed an Air France senior board meeting where they ripped the shirts off company executives during the brawl.
The incident happened as a group of around 100 workers striking over recent job cuts forced their way into the meeting at the Charles de Gaulle airport on Monday.
Tensions between staff and management had been building up since the company announced the meeting to finalize the company’s “restructuring plan,” which involves sacking 2,900 employees by 2017. Based on the cuts, 1,700 ground staff, 900 cabin crew and 300 pilots will be made redundant.
Human resources manager Xavier Broseta was forced to climb over a fence without a shirt to escape the mob and Pierre Plissonnier, an Air France executive, had his shirt and coat ripped to shreds by the protesters.
According to the company, seven people were injured during the incident and an official complaint for “aggravated violence” was submitted to the police.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said he was “scandalized” by the strikers' actions and that he offered the managers his “full support.”
Air France President Alexandre de Juniac condemned “the physical violence that took place around the executive meeting with the greatest firmness”, adding that it will not affect the management’s willingness to continue discussions.”
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