Uber France: the two leaders are in custody – Les Echos

The two leaders Uber France, Thibaud Simphal and Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, respectively CEO and director Uber France France and Northern Europe, would have been placed in custody Monday by Paris judicial police in an investigation into their mobile UberPOP have told AFP judicial sources and close the file. Opened on 27 November 2014, this survey is prior to the day of mobilization taxis Thursday against illegal employment in their sector. Taxi events were interspersed with violence that day. The survey provides a system of “illegal organization” customer relationship development with individuals to transport against remuneration but without paying payroll taxes.

When asked by “Les Echos” Uber however refused to confirm or deny the information: “The leaders were due to meet France Uber investigators as part of the investigation UberPop for several months on, it was agreed for several days. We do not know more at this stage, “said a source close to the case.

UberPOP referred

In March, the Paris headquarters Uber France had been searched. Documentation, mobile phones and computers were seized. This is the app for smartphones UberPOP that is subject to this investigation. This matchmaking service comes from illegal activity, covered by the Thévenoud Act of 1 October 2014 which strengthened the sanctions. The survey also aims alleged facts “illegal storage of personal data beyond the period previously provided for the implementation of the treatment,” said the judicial source told AFP. This component involves the collection of customer data and possible breaches of the Data Protection Act 1978.

Uber disputes for months Thévenoud the law that regulates the activity of cars transportation with driver (VTC). The US parent company filed two complaints against France before the European Commission, to obtain the cancellation of this law.

Thursday evening, after receiving representatives taxis, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve had increased the firmness of gestures. “UberPOP is an illegal service, it must be closed,” he had hammered while recognizing that only justice could pronounce such a closure.

In the wake of his statements, all Fraud departmental operational committees were to meet on Monday under the authority of the prefects and prosecutors “to implement all measures to suppress the illegal practice of the taxi profession,” he had announced.

Taxis and VTC received by Thomas Thévenoud for a “consultation meeting”

MP Thomas Thévenoud (not registered, ex-PS) called Monday afternoon taxi organizations and private cars with driver (VTC), excluding Uber, a “consultative meeting” to discuss the “means” of a “total” application of its legislation, is it has learned from sources. The deputy is responsible for the law governing the activities of the VTC, enacted in October 2014.
In his invitation, the chosen of Saône-et-Loire explains that it will “examine all “the” means of rapid implementation, effective and complete “text. He justifies this meeting by the need to “get out of the impasse in which we find ourselves.”
Precise MP had not invited to the meeting Uber “who clearly decided by its aggressive attitude destabilize balance that we had found together “referring without naming the illicit transport service between UberPOP individuals developed by the American company.