Taxis gather for their operation snail – Les Echos

Taxis gather for their operation snail – Les Echos

Several dozen taxis have begun to gather Monday morning to Orly and Roissy for a snail operation to Paris for denouncing competition Uber .

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The day will be difficult for the Paris motorists. When calling Taxis de France, the Collective of Paris taxis and the French Association of taxis, taxis block today want to protest against the refusal by the court Friday to ban the transport service between individuals developed by Uber under the name UberPOP.

A Roissy Charles de Gaulle, the strikers were given taxis go to the rear base of taxis near the terminal 3. Taxi fifty were present around 6:30, and no incidents to report was, according to an AFP journalist. At Orly, few vehicles parked at the top of taxis stations blocked the customer support.

“The VTC is unfair competition”

According to airport sources, the movement looks “less monitoring “than in previous protests against the VTC, the Inter drivers who chose not to join the movement. The processions were to leave Paris airports around 07H00 to converge to the edge of the square Vauban in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. “Significant impacts are expected across the motorway sector in the Paris region,” warned the police headquarters Sunday, advising motorists to avoid the routes taxis and the area of ​​the square Vauban.

“We know it’s going to create a mess, but it has no choice, it is not heard,” assured Michael Mouly, taxi “five years” who came “to defend his steak” with the strikers Roissy. “The VTC is unfair competition, we do not fight on equal terms,” ​​he adds. “Officially, the VTC will not have the right to make public marauding. But they do it constantly, “irritated Salahdin Dahaoui, president of the Collective of Parisian taxi. “Uber made illegal taxi business. This is piracy! , “He says.

Court Decision

This new episode in the war of taxis follows to r Efus Friday of Paris Commercial Court to ban the popular but controversial UberPOP service that connects passengers and drivers who are not professional drivers. This service was added between individuals in February at the Paris commercial offer Uber, electronic platform available on smartphone that mediates between customers and drivers VTC.

Several operations snail have already been conducted in France since the beginning of the year to protest competition from VTC, especially that of Uber, one of them having been marked in January overflows and degradations in Paris. But this time, the Inter drivers chose not to join the movement, even if it is also in favor of the ban on Uber. “We do not want to bother people to approach Christmas,” said Nordine Dahmane, FO representative and member of the Inter CFDT, CGT, FO, SDCTP and CSE. The Inter scheduled to meet Monday at 4:00 p.m. for deciding whether to move in January.