Former Ubisoft Executives Arrested Following Claims of Sexual Assault

5 former executives from Ubisoft have been arrested this week following a year-long investigation into sexual assault and harassment.

French police took a number of males into custody

Based on French newspaper Libération (through Gamesindustry.biz), three arrests had been made earlier this week on October 3, with one other two males taken into custody on Wednesday. These arrested embrace former chief inventive officer Serge Hascoët and ex-VP of editorial and inventive providers Tommy François.

The 5 former executives will now give testimony to the police within the occasion {that a} legal trial happens, though it’s unclear what the following steps within the matter will likely be.

Each Hascoët and François left the corporate in 2020 following a litany of allegations of abuse and harassment inside Ubisoft. On the time, Hascoët oversaw a lot of the inventive path of video games and franchises whereas François was accountable for Ubisoft’s World Texture Facility, a database that comprises paintings and analysis capabilities.

Following their go away in 2020, varied present and former workers made allegations of bodily assault, racist and homophobic remarks, and extra present inside the firm.

In a press release to Libération, the plaintiff’s lawyer Maude Beckers mentioned that the case “reveals systemic sexual violence,” however didn’t go into many extra particulars at the moment. Ubisoft additionally responded to a press release from Gamesindustry.biz by saying that it had “no data of what has been shared and subsequently can’t remark.”