The former CEO of France Telecom Didier Lombard saw his sentence reduced on Friday in Paris, the Court of Appeal sentencing him for institutional moral harassment to one year in prison with full suspension, against four months in prison at first instance .
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Didier Lombard, now 80 years old, was fined the same amount of 15,000 euros as that pronounced at first instance in 2019. His number 2 at the material time (2007-2008), Louis-Pierre Wenès, was also sentenced on appeal to one year in prison with a suspended sentence and a fine of 15,000 euros, twelve years after the events marked by a wave of suicides by group employees.
