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From the article (the first few paragraphs in fact) >Ikea France will be tried as a corporate entity alongside several of its former executives.[...] The 15 pe
by rndgermandude 6y ago
From the article (the first few paragraphs in fact)
>Ikea France will be tried as a corporate entity alongside several of its former executives.[...] The 15 people in the dock include top executives such as former CEO Stefan Vanoverbeke, and former store managers. Four police officers are also on trial for handing over confidential information.
This suggests to me that those people may be facing jail time.
- dmos62 6y ago> those people may be facing jail time. Not to be the devil's advocate or anything, but it's extremely unlikely that they'll end up in jail. I would be thrilled to be wrong.
- thefounder 6y agoHighly unlikely indeed but not impossible in France.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoYes, one of the things that stood out to me is that the physical men responsible on a human level are also named in the suit. Very often I find that it is cloaked behind a corporation. Even worse is when it be cloaked behind governments. — there was a scandal in the Netherlands when it was found that “the government” had systemically suppressed a whistle-blower, down to bribing psychiatrists to give him false diagnoses of mental disorders to keep him silent: — the end result was that he was offered several millions of euros in compensation from the government, but none of the actual flesh and blood men responsible for these decisions were ever personally sanctioned criminally, so, the tax payer was the one who ended up paying the price for it all and the political careers of those personally responsible went on. Organizational accountability is not quite as effective as a deterrent as human accountability, one would assume.