Air France execs have shirts torn in scuffle with protestors
Air France-KLM has said it will take legal action after two Air France executives had their shirts torn while fleeing a meeting about job cuts.
Human resources manager Xavier Broseta and senior official Pierre Plissonnier had to clamber over a fence, while several others were injured, reports the BBC.
The men were taking part in talks about plans for 2,900 job losses when hundreds of protestors stormed into Air France headquarters at Roissy.
The airline’s parent firm Air France-KLM said it would take legal action over the protesters’ ‘aggregated violence’.
"This violence was carried out by particularly violent, isolated individuals, whereas the protest by striking personnel was taking place calmly up until then," an Air France-KLM spokesman said to Reuters.
The airline later confirmed the job losses as part of a big restructuring which includes route cuts.
The measures include cutting 1,700 ground staff, 900 cabin crew, and 300 pilots, and also a 10% reduction in its long-haul business, a reduction in the size of the aircraft fleet and an increase in pilots’ working hours.
Air France chief executive Frederic Gagey had already left before the works council meeting near Charles de Gaulle airport, was stormed by union protesters about an hour after it had begun.
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