An epidemic of suicides in one of France’s largest companies claimed another victim yesterday when a 51-year-old man threw himself from a bridge. He become the 24th France Telecom employee to take his own life in the past 19 months.

The dead man, married with two children, left a note in his car blaming the “atmosphere at work” for his decision to leap from the bridge over a motorway near Alby-sur-Chéran in Haute-Savoie, in the French Alps.

To read this report in The Independent in full, see:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-phone-operator-hit-by-24th-suicide-1794715.html