London - An online game in which players try to “kill” steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has been released in France.
It features players hurling barrels and rocks at police outside the loss-making blast furnaces in Florange, eastern France, which the British-based, Indian billionaire closed.
Mittal is characterised in the game, set in 2030, as a robot who must be bludgeoned to death.
Critics have condemned the game for its violent nature and for glorifying the militancy of French unions, blamed by many for the decline of the country’s industrial sector.
But the game’s creator, Alexandre Grilletta, insists it is just a “bit of fun”, adding: “The Florange protests just had the right ingredients of heroes and baddies to make a good game.” - Daily Mail