[those french telecom suicides] what's behind them

There's been another one:

Une jeune femme s'est jetée vendredi par la fenêtre de son bureau parisien. Le ministre du Travail, Xavier Darcos, devrait rencontrer la semaine prochaine le PDG de l'entreprise. Une salariée de France Télécom, âgée de 32 ans, est décédée vendredi, après s'être jetée du 4e étage d'un immeuble du groupe dans le XVIIème arrondissement à Paris. La jeune femme était chargée de clientèle, au service de recouvrement d'Orange, la marque de téléphonie mobile de France Telecom.

In plain English:

The latest suicide occurred on Friday, when a 32-year-old woman leapt to her death at a France Telecom office in Paris. On Wednesday, a 49-year-old man in Troyes, east of Paris, plunged a knife into his own stomach during a meeting in which he had been told he was being transferred.

Like Airbus going down due to design faults, this one of Telecom raises many questions:

1. Why so many at France Telecom specifically?

2. What's the work culture there?

3. What have they been told, in the light of the recession? How were they told about having to transfer, for example? Was it done compassionately?

4. Is there something in the character profile of a FT employee? Is that person tending to the soft or has he/she been used to secure tenure in the past?

5. Why are employees not coming out and saying much or is the media being suppressed at state level?

FT say it is not a statistical aberration, compared to the French average and the French do tend to be highly strung but still ... that's pretty extreme.