Lombard leaving the courtroom at the Paris courthouse, on the last day of trial for several former members of the telecoms giant's management for 'moral harassment'. — AFP
A French court will rule on Friday whether the former CEO of France Telecom and other executives carried out "institutional harassment" that sparked a spate of suicides at the company.
Between 2008 to 2009,35 employees of the former state-owned telecom giant, now called Orange, took their own lives as managers embarked on a vast restructuring plan that included cutting 22,000 jobs.
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