British bank HSBC fired six staff after they performed a mock Isis-style execution video during a team-building day out and posted footage online, a spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.
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Video obtained by The Sun shows bank staffers dressed in black jumpsuits and balaclavas standing by a co-worker in an orange jumpsuit down on his knees.
The employees were on a team building exercise in Birmingham, central England, when they made the film. It was later deleted after shocking co-workers and eventually the bank itself.
HSBC said those involved had been sacked for what it called an “abhorrent” video.
The six men were on a day out at Teamworks Karting track in Birmingham organised by HSBC. One of “terrorists” appears to be holding a coat hanger bent into a knife shape.
HSBC apologized for the video, calling it “abhorrent”, and fired everyone involved.
Alan Henning, 47, a taxi driver from Salford, who was in Syria to do humanitarian work, was killed by the British militant identified as Mohamed Emwazi previous year days after Western powers began air strikes against the group which controls territory in Iraq and Syria.
“We do not tolerate inappropriate behavior”, said the bank’s statement.
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They were seen staging a beheading scene with five of them laughing and joking as a colleague in an orange jumpsuit knelt at their feet.
