Eurotunnel chief executive, Jacques Gounon, has attacked hedge fund agitators in Eurotunnel's restructuring battle as the "bad boys" of the financial markets.

Gounon said some critics of the debt rescue package put forward by Goldman Sachs and Macquarie were holding up the process in an attempt to cash in. He told French newspaper Les Echos: "Their goal is to make the company as indebted as possible in order to get better interest."