Bankers sacked for ‘IS’ execution prank on team building day

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Six bank staff have been sacked after filming themselves staging a mock Islamic State-style execution during a team-building day out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The HSBC workers were dressed in overalls and balaclavas at a go-karting centre when they staged a beheading scene&comma; The Sun reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Footage posted online showed five of them laughing and joking as a colleague in an orange jumpsuit&comma; named as Saf Ahmed&comma; knelt at their feet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One clutched a coat hanger as a fake knife while another held Mr Ahmed by the shoulders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A worker apparently shouted &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Allahu Akbar”&comma; Arabic for &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;god is great”&comma; a phrase often heard by IS executioners in videos of them murdering hostages&comma; before one was heard whooping&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The eight-second film was shot as the workers enjoyed an away day to a Teamworks Karting track in Birmingham organised by the bank&comma; The Sun said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>HSBC said those involved had been sacked for what it called an &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;abhorrent” video&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A spokesman said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We do not tolerate inappropriate behaviour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As soon as The Sun brought this video to our attention we took the decision to sack the individuals involved&period; This is an abhorrent video and HSBC would like to apologise for any offence caused&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>British aid workers David Haines&comma; from Perth in Scotland&comma; was beheaded after being taken hostage in Syria in March 2013 while working for international relief agency Acted&comma; while Alan Henning&comma; 47&comma; of Salford&comma; was captured by IS militants while on an aid convoy in December 2013&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Both men wore orange jumpsuits while they were filmed being beheaded by IS in Syria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68cd32674aade">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68cd32674aade'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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