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French Goodyear firm workers jailed for sequestrating managers

An Amiens court gave eight strikers protesting plant closure nine months in prison for unlawful confinement of two managers in January 2014.

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Eight former employees of the Goodyear tyre factory in northern France have been handed two-year jail sentences for holding their managers hostage in a protest against the plant’s closure, reports The Financial Times.

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