we are several hundred
people in this room where he does
dark enough in your opinion that
would he pass if a fire came to
trigger
there are many emergency exits
here and there reported by small
green lights
but concretely if a fire took
behind the scenes behind me how
would we be each other
direct to these emergency exits at
good place and thus be saving
toxic fumes and flames each
of us here can shoot the alert
fire and that’s what makes us
let’s be quiet this is
shared responsibility that makes that
we feel safe and that
of course we will thank the one
of us who would have pulled the alarmed
fire
and that’s the normal operation
but sometimes it happens that we do not want
not that you dance the alert and there
the consequences can take you
very far in June 2008
I work for ubs
I am marketing manager and
communication for nine years my
supervisor newly
recruited enters my office
anxious
and pissed off she explains to me that a
search has just taken place in the
Director General’s Office
I quote it you understand given
circumstances
hurry up it’s important I
just feel that something is wrong
no and I’m going to decide to launch the
alert internally as there is no
alert launcher manuals I pose some
questions to colleagues I’m
closer to our staff
and the labor inspectorate who are
there to help us but protect us
also I ask questions to
banker colleagues whose answers
clear shocks me
I am told that the mother house that ubs
in Switzerland organized a vast system
tax evasion abroad and
that the French subsidiary for which
I worked as accomplices of these
actions
I then meet separately some
leaders of the bank and explains them
tetanized what I just discovered
thanks to all these discussions
I point out to its leaders
what my fellow bankers told me
explained it’s malfunctions put
in place by the bank that would have so
organized a vast system
international turned to the bank
offshore including to Switzerland to
the time it’s called escape
organized tax and that this is
completely illegal and shut up
it is to be an accomplice
and me at that moment I think
just that we’re going to thank me for
my interest in
functioning and reputation of
my company
and then as if someone here
pulled the alarmed fire
I thought my life was going to pick up
as before but I was wrong
I was completely wrong I had
launched the alert but my drh have
legal director my president my
general manager the very same one in
the office was raided and who
today eight years later
pleads guilty in this criminal case
tell me all I’m tired that
I have to take a vacation that
I invent a story and we come
here and there complain to them
I will not be completely
competent art the act of speaking
to explain that I understood that
malfunction was taking place that’s me
been blamed
following my report but
southern evaluation drastically me who
for nine years was relatively well
noted to go to this position of
in charge of marketing and communication
suddenly I am incompetent or
I am even blamed for my level
of English that we have never
been a problem
especially when you know it’s enough
surprising that I have never spoken
in English to my children
with such an evaluation
I’m actually downgrading I’m becoming
early 2009 responsible for hostesses to
dairy products from the bank
where are my customers welcomed
new mission is to ensure
the cleanliness of the hygiene offices
from the kitchen and make sure that the
flowers and green plants are good
watered in the summer of 2009 following
reports the labor inspectorate me
ask to file a complaint against the
bank for tax evasion and
money laundering
organized with the prosecutor of the
republic what am I doing with the help
of my lawyer at the time and at the
same period
the bank had considered a plan to
dismissal of 100 people in
which I was included and it happens
something that I always have trouble
to understand this same inspection the
work that asked me to wear
complaint against my employer agrees
without brightening the bed without the
dismissal of May 99 colleagues and
refuse mine why why me
to lock up at an employer who
fraud and that demotes me because
I denounced these frauds
in parallel with these reproaches to these
vexations that I live daily in
the company something happens to me
worthy of a scene from a scenario
Hollywood
I receive a call in masked number
on my cellphone
after a few sentences I understand
that it is a customs service which
depends on the finance ministry it’s me
make an appointment in paris on
accompanies me in the basement of a large
Parisian store that shows me
gap insignia
where our national colors and
French republic are well
apparent I feel so relieved
finally but savior have arrived I
denounced a malfunction in
internal
I launched the alert three years ago
already I have complained
two years ago and I finally heard
these agencies and officials explain to me
that at ubs the fraud continues and he me
convene three days later for a
hearing longer than nine hours
I ‘m told the department needs to
proof of additional parts
this operation which therefore consists of
provide data information
information lasts more than one
year when I have to
transmit to each appointment
confidential information that
belong to the bank of which I am
always one of the frames and if you
were in a Hollywood scenario he
there would necessarily be a scene where we
will talk about your protection and
your security
but there is nothing about me
protection neither of alert launcher nor of
status of a customs viewfinder while
the status exists two years later at
summer 2013
after many searches
ubs went into examination a first
once a second time
a third time which is good
obviously relieves me but it happens
an unexpected event for the
first time I’m publicized but
who gave my name to the media
why was my anonymity not
respected why have not I been
protected at the time I do not know
but I declare that I trust
in the justice of our country since
tax evasion is a crime and that
60 to 80 billion euros leaves the
France every year
at the same time I start to go a
little better
I send CVs to resume a life
professional since having
denounced internally these
malfunctions had stopped my
career I see more than 1000 cv nothing
no answer my anonymity had not
not respected the protection
had not been assured I could not
so no longer go back to a normal life
a whistleblower
it’s someone who gets up in
the general interest to put the
light of the information that was
hidden to the greatest number
his intention is to act in
the general interest
nobody or almost do not know we do not
are not protected
even worse than we are in danger and
if any of you try to us
help he might not be
protected in my case I refused
to be complicit in mechanisms
unlawful illegal establishment by
my ex employer I just obeyed
administrations and obeyed
from sworn officials
we come to the paradox
that the alert launchers who gets up
in the general interest and who as
allow me to the French state of
recover 12 billion euros are not
neither thank nor protect and their
anonymity is not protected either
neither their financial protection guaranteed
for my part I should have benefited
in 2011 a status of the sights of the
customs which would have allowed precisely
protect my anonymity and make me
to return to a professional life
normal all the more surprising as the
status exists in the united states the status
of lens out of it of alert exist and
the people who benefit from it are
protect their anonymity is guaranteed and
their financial security as new
years have passed
I was marketing manager and
communication of a great brand
international and I won
suitably my life for two years and
half I live social minima and in
two months I do not know where I will go
to live this is unfortunately not a
figure of style but you can all
be alert launcher fires the alarm
fire
here in this room is an example
denounced abuses on
children on disabled people
on our seniors are also denounced
drugs that kills instead of
treat them all as much but if one
of you fire fire alarm and
that firefighters decide to evacuate
everyone and leave you at
middle of the flames what would be normal
in the country of human rights
is not it essential that whoever
stands up to protect his country for
protect others, too
protected this is integrity of
live together transparency of good
meaning because the information we
have brought to light have allowed to
discover this one and this
opacity and we all know that opacity
leads to impunity with
kindness
I can only remind you that if a
fire was taking in this room we did not
would think neither one nor the other has
abandoned to let burn the one who
was ringing the alarm bell
let’s make sure each other
that the status of alert launchers is
recognized and especially apply I thank
for listening to me
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