Meanwhile, in France, executives had their shirts ripped from their backs by workers about to lose their jobs

Two Air France executives had their shirts ripped from their backs and clambered over security fences to escape after staff members facing job cuts burst into a meeting.

Pictures showed both HR director Xavier Broseta (main image above) and Pierre Plissonnier, head of Air France in Orly, fleeing the scene in Roissy-en-France.

Air France plans to cut 2,900 jobs by 2017. Its parent company Air France-KLM said it would take legal action against the protesters:

This violence was carried out by particularly violent, isolated individuals, whereas the protest by striking personnel was taking place calmly up until then.

(Pictures: Getty)

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