New day of mobilization taxis despite the appointment of a mediator – The World

Despite the appointment of a mediator by Matignon, the mobilization against the excesses of taxi transport car with driver (VTC) was maintained in the Night Tuesday, January 26 to Wednesday 27 and continued Wednesday morning.

The taxis were demanding monetary compensation for their lower activity and falling prices due licenses, according to them, to competition VTC that undercutting prices and do not respect the law. The area is framed since October 2014 by the “Thévenoud law,” but many of its components were canceled by the courts.

• Blockages in Porte Maillot Orly and Roissy

Some taxi drivers have spent the night in their cars at Porte Maillot in Paris, in the Bercy area. Porte Maillot was still blocked Wednesday morning by about two hundred taxis. “We are determined. We will not move “, said Ibrahima Sylla, association Taxis France.

At Roissy, hundreds of taxis was deployed shortly after 7:00 and about thirty of them blocking access to the airport at the exit of the A1 motorway, others prevented the management of passengers by VTC to different terminals.

At Orly, ten strikers Orly Sud blocked the taxi ranks and “five or six” Orly West, according to a source familiar with the matter. It has reported a “altercation somewhat strong” between strikers and non-strikers, which led to the arrest of a striker.

On Wednesday morning some three hundred taxis from Bordeaux and Nice were en route to Paris, says Sylla, quoted by France Info.

• Incidents in Paris province

The mobilization of over two thousand taxi drivers on Tuesday resulted in several incidents and resulted in an injured and twenty-four arrests in Ile de-France.

In the regions, the mobilization in Lille was also peppered with a few incidents, especially when CTI drivers were attacked by taxis. The protests have disrupted around Blagnac Airport and Toulouse train station. In the Bouches-du-Rhône, five hundred taxis protested without incident.

• A mediator appointed Tuesday

Tuesday at midday, Manuel Valls received representatives of taxi organizations from one of the two inter-union which had called for the mobilization in the whole country, with different slogans. The Prime Minister announced the strengthening of controls on illegal practices by VTC.

He also proposed a dialogue between taxis and VTC, entrusted to the Socialist MP Laurent Grandguillaume, member of the Finance Committee , considered a good connoisseur of the business and the economic world.

The mission of the Ombudsman is supposed to last three months, and Alain Griset, President of the National Union of taxis, ” if ever that time allows to achieve a concrete result, I think we can accept these possible “. On the ground, by cons, reactions were more mixed or even hostile.

At the Porte Maillot, the spokesman of the CGT Taxis, Karim Asnoun, reacted megaphone, regretting that “the government [did they] brought contempt” and “Valls [ed] refused to negotiate with the Inter this” on site.

late Tuesday afternoon, the Prefect of Police of Paris, Michel Cadot, called taxi drivers in “disperse to allow Parisians to return safely home after their day work “. A unheeded call

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