Suicide of a Banque de France employee: letter accuses the bank's management

In June, two Banque de France employees committed suicide at home. One of them left a letter accusing the Banque de France, which was obtained by L'Humanité. As management has not responded, the union group is expected to vote on 11 October to request an expert opinion on the grounds of "serious and imminent danger".

"I am taking this action against the Banque de France". The words are written in black and white. On a simple sheet of paper left with his family just before he committed suicide, the employee born in 1966 and working at the Paris office of La Courneuve explicitly accused the public institution.

The text, entitled "Last Wish", is short, as is the sentence in which he "asks everyone who can to sue the bank for mistreatment and RPS (psychosocial risks)", before parting with the words "Goodbye". In June, two employees of the cash division, where banknotes and coins are produced, took their own lives at home. In June, two employees of the cash division, where banknotes and coins are produced, took their own lives at home.

Employees "live in a kind of permanent instability" and fear for the very future of the sector at a time when "several outsourcing projects are underway", warns CGT central union delegate Hugo Coldeboeuf. While fiduciary services are a particularly hard-hit sector, restructuring is more global for unionists.

This has been underway since 2015, when François Villeroy de Galhau took over as head of this public institution.