Liberated.(employees of Credit Foncier de France hold managers captive for five days)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, January, 1997
PARIS
IN FRANCE, social conflict is spreading. In 1995 the country's militant railwaymen led a month-long transport strike. At the end of last year diesel-hardened lorry drivers blocked the roads. Now central Paris has just witnessed a kidnapping drama masterminded by 2,000 mortgage salesmen.
On January 17th the clerks of Credit Foncier de France (CFF) armed themselves with sandwiches and thermos flasks, straightened their ties and stormed the bank's head office. For five days they imprisoned their boss, Jerome Meyssonnier, and a handful of his colleagues. On January 22nd their nerve buckled and they set their hostages free.
By locking up the "governor" (Mr Meysonnier's actual job title), they had hoped to save their bank from the designs of the...
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