The noose is tightening around UberPop. Two leaders of American society were taken into custody Monday at the offices of the Judicial Police (PJ) of Paris. This would be Simphal Thibaud, CEO of Uber France, and Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, director Uber Europe says “The World”.
The problem
The Parisian PJ hears both leaders as part of an investigation opened in November 2014 for illegal activity on the taxi profession and computer data concealment .
The reason:. UberPop the service that connects customers with individuals to transport against remuneration
The drivers pay neither taxes nor contributions, are not insured professionally and did not follow 250 hours of training required. Yet, they continue to roll.
What changes the Thévenoud Act
In October 2014, the law was passed Thévenoud. It is now forbidden to offer provision of road transport “for consideration” if one is not registered as a taxi driver or passenger vehicles with drivers (VTC). The service between UberPop directly in the viewfinder of justice, with its non-professional drivers.
On January 1, 2015, the Act comes into force. The arrested drivers UberPop incur up to one year in prison, a fine of € 15,000, a license suspension and confiscation of the vehicle. The organizers may heavier sentences. Two years’ imprisonment and a fine of € 300,000
Thévenoud: “Taxis, do enforce the law!”
The survey
The Paris court condemns UberPop in October 2014 to 100,000 euros in fine for improperly presented his company as a carpool service.
A month later, the Paris prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation against the activity “low cost” of the American Uber. The reason:. “Illegal organization” of “customer matchmaking system with people who engage in road transport (others) for consideration”
The survey also focuses on alleged acts of “illegal storage of personal data beyond the period previously provided for the implementation of the treatment”, says “The World”. This time the Uber whole society is covered and only his Pop service. On March 16, the Paris headquarters Uber France is searched. Mobile phones, documentation and computers were seized.
The California company defends and multiplies judicial offensives. The Company files four priority issues of constitutionality (QPC). The Constitutional Council rejects both, and valid (tariff freedom). Last QPC directly concerns UberPop but the verdict will not fall until September.
New prefectural
In early June, the tension a notch when Uber decides to deploy its service “low-cost” and illegal in many cities in France. Taxis are mobilizing and events of the past week degenerate. Violence are reported against UberPop drivers, but also VTC.
Bernard Cazeneuve, Minister of the Interior up to the plate, and with him Francois Hollande. The president denounced an activity that “no rules” tax or social, and requires qu’UberPop be “dissolved” notes “Le Figaro”. The government has chosen his camp and the American company does not belong.
Prefectural Orders are taken in several departments, including Paris last Thursday, to facilitate the application of the law Thévenoud. 420 procedures have already been open since January against the UberPop drivers.
Juliette Pousson
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