Meetings prefecture, blockages: after a new day of action Tuesday to ban the UberPOP application, taxis Marseille and Nantes have been successful and ended their movement.
Following the announcement of the arrival of this controversial service Marseille, Nantes, but also Strasbourg, on Monday causing angry movements of taxi drivers, the Prefecture of the Bouches-du-Rhône announced have made an order which “remembers” the illegality of services “UberPOP kind” and provides “tighter controls”, after a meeting with a delegation of representatives of Marseille taxis.
In the middle of the afternoon, the prefecture of Loire-Atlantique, in turn, announced a ban on the activity of transport UberPOP, a service that connects individuals with amateur drivers using their own vehicles.
“This service does not match any type transport activity of persons authorized by law. Individuals who would put him out illegally exert the taxi profession. Their criminal liability could be incurred both under the illegal exercise of the profession taxi that under the rootkit, “said the prefecture in a statement.
One hundred taxi drivers blocked the Nantes ring on Tuesday morning, causing several kilometers caps, before converging at midday to the city center, joined by some fifty taxi Bordeaux, disrupting traffic and trams also blocking access to the airport.
Prior to the meeting, one hundred vehicles were parked just outside the prefecture, decorated with posters proclaiming “UberPop: Tax evasion” or “Enforce the law”
<. p> “We had confirmation that an order of the prefect will be taken from this (Tuesday) evening and a special issue will be set up” for taxis that would witness an illegal transport, said Sebastien Leclair, the professional association of taxi drivers in Loire-Atlantique, the CPAT 44.
“was terminated our movement and to the indefinite strike and we will go back to work,” he added.
In Marseille, taxis have also raised their blocking movements, before the prefecture around the Aix TGV station, Marseille Provence airport in Marignane and some doors of Grand seaport Marseille (GPMM), Tuesday noon after the announcement of the order issued by the Prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône.
“We have obtained the commitment of strengthening controls and the return of illegal recruitment Uber POP sessions “, was satisfied Boudjema Rachid, Secretary General of the Union of Marseilles Taxis.
This new meeting was convened after the failure of first organized on Monday night in the wake of an operation of taxis to disrupt the holding of a non-professional driver recruitment session at a hotel Marseille.
The popular app Uber mobile phone can get in touch with VTC (transport car with driver) classics, but also via UberPOP with vehicles whose drivers are private individuals, a service that has earned the company numerous run-ins with the authorities and justice.
Uber has been sentenced to a fine of 100,000 euros by the Paris court late 2014 UberPOP. The company has appealed. Northern prefect banned the service may end for “unfair competition” vis-à-vis the VTC and taxis, both professions ulcerated by the development of this activity.
The prefecture of Bouches-du-Rhône recalled Tuesday in its decree “that drivers who illegally would exercise the profession of taxi or driver VTC, would face criminal penalties of one year imprisonment and a 15,000 euro fine that can be accompanied by additional penalties suspension of driving license for five years and the confiscation of the vehicle. “
In its decree, the Prefecture provides for” enhanced and targeted checks “from Tuesday” in the unauthorized practice of transport persons for remuneration “to be” intensively continued throughout the month of June. ”
UberPOP launched Monday in Marseille, Strasbourg and Nantes, was already available in Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice and Bordeaux.
06/09/2015 5:03:11 p.m. – Nantes (AFP) – AFP © 2015
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