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Air France 'shirt-ripper' protestors found guilty

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Tom Parry
1 December 2016

A trio of former Air France workers have been found guilty of ripping the shirts off the backs of two executives.

An Air France A380

A court in France handed the men suspended sentences of three to four months for organised violence, after their attack on the airline bosses, who were fleeing a meeting about job cuts.

Two other Air France employees were found not guilty, while 11 were handed €500 fines for property damage, BBC News reports.

The incident took place in October 2015 during a protest by the airline’s staff over job restructuring plans at its headquarters in the Paris suburb of Roissy, near Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Protestors at the demonstration broke down a fence and invaded a boardroom at the facility which forced executives to flee.