{"id":12313,"date":"2026-01-28T13:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/france-presses-capgemini-over-ice-contract-amid-international-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:49:47","slug":"france-presses-capgemini-over-ice-contract-amid-international-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/france-presses-capgemini-over-ice-contract-amid-international-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"France presses Capgemini over ICE contract amid international backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=8e3874eb-0388-4571-ad0b-c698a42c7c87&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>France\u2019s finance minister has urged Capgemini to explain a contract the French tech company signed with the US immigration enforcement agency ICE, amid growing criticism of it following weeks of protests against Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>The intervention comes after two US citizens were killed by ICE officers in Minneapolis, incidents that have intensified scrutiny and an international backlash against the agency\u2019s conduct. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge Capgemini to shed light, in an extremely transparent manner, on its activities, on this policy, and undoubtedly to question the nature of these activities,\u201d finance minister Roland Lescure told French parliament on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come after days of controversy in Italy over the inclusion of ICE agents in the US security team sent to the upcoming Winter Olympics hosted in the Italian Alps. The Italian government on Tuesday sought to quell tensions by clarifying that the ICE agents will be confined to the premises of the US consulate in Milan. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"pjecxazd\" class=\"n-content-image n-content-image--full\" data-component=\"image-set\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/ftcms%3A1335170b-d4c2-4130-9be3-33f484445f45?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=1 1x,https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/ftcms%3A1335170b-d4c2-4130-9be3-33f484445f45?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=2 2x,https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/ftcms%3A1335170b-d4c2-4130-9be3-33f484445f45?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=3 3x\" width=\"2288\" height=\"1526\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 490px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/ftcms%3A1d41340f-d5ec-4dd3-9cf1-25063e913435?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=490&amp;dpr=1 1x,https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/ftcms%3A1d41340f-d5ec-4dd3-9cf1-25063e913435?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=490&amp;dpr=2 2x,https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/ftcms%3A1d41340f-d5ec-4dd3-9cf1-25063e913435?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=490&amp;dpr=3 3x\" width=\"1526\" height=\"1526\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F1335170b-d4c2-4130-9be3-33f484445f45.jpg?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=1\" alt=\"\" data-image-type=\"image\" width=\"2288\" height=\"1526\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"n-content-picture__caption o3-editorial-typography-caption\"><span>Capgemini chief executive Aiman Ezzat said the group only became aware of the subsidiary\u2019s project \u2018through public sources\u2019 in the media<\/span><span> <!-- -->\u00a9 Krisztian Bocsi\/Bloomberg<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Video footage captured in Minnesota shows the shooting of two US citizens during altercations with ICE officers, spurring protests across the US. The Department of Homeland Security has insisted protesters in Minneapolis obstructed ICE\u2019s work as it arrested and deported migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Capgemini\u2019s US subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions (CGS) signed a contract with ICE in December, which prompted the company\u2019s chief executive Aiman Ezzat to explain the agreement on LinkedIn. The contract is worth $4.8mn to provide ICE with \u201cinvestigation and personal background check services\u201d, according to US government records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The US branch had acted autonomously as part of rules that allow it to work on classified projects with US agencies, Ezzat wrote. He added that the rest of the group had only become aware of it recently \u201cthrough public sources\u201d in the media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nature and scope of this work has raised questions compared to what we typically do as a business and technology firm,\u201d Ezzat wrote on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe independent board of directors has already begun the process of reviewing the content and scope of this contract and CGS contracting procedures,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lescure argued that it is the responsibility of the company\u2019s leadership to know about the activities of its auxiliaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them privately that this explanation was insufficient and that the very least\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009a company that owns subsidiaries [should] know what is happening in those companies, and that is what Capgemini has committed to doing,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Capgemini did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world France\u2019s finance minister has urged Capgemini to explain a contract the French tech company signed with the US immigration enforcement agency ICE, amid growing criticism of it following weeks of protests against Donald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4a8c8f8b-5352-4907-b083-186f0fd5baeb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}