The mobilization against the excesses of taxi transport car with driver (VTC) continues Wednesday morning despite the appointment of a mediator by Matignon.
Manuel Valls has proposed a dialogue, entrusted the Socialist MP Laurent Grandguillaume, with taxis who mobilized thousands in France Tuesday and maintained rallies in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
taxi drivers and spent the night in their car Porte Maillot and in the area of Bercy in Paris. Porte Maillot (west of the capital) was still blocked Wednesday morning before 6:00.
“We are determined. It will not move, “said Ibrahima Sylla, association Taxis France.
The police department has advised motorists to avoid these again Wednesday sectors.
The mobilization of Tuesday resulted in several incidents and resulted in an injured and 24 arrests in Ile-de-France.
Prime Minister, who announced the strengthening of controls on illegal practices some VTC, is “ready to open, with the representative professional organizations, a consultation on the sector’s economic balance of individual transport of people and possible changes in regulations that may arise” according to Matignon, who said that the VTC would also be consulted.
M. Valls received in mid-day representatives of taxi organizations from one of the two inter-union which had called for the mobilization in the whole country, with different slogans.
– Violence ‘unacceptable’ –
Nth mobilization in France since the outbreak of VTC and Uber type of electronic booking platforms have revolutionized the sector, events Tuesday resulted in several incidents, one was injured in the Ile-de-France. Mr. Valls denounced the violence “unacceptable”.
The taxis were demanding compensation for their lower activity and falling prices of licenses, according to them due to competition from VTC that break prices and do not respect the law. The area is framed since October 2014 by the “Thévenoud Act”, but many of its components were canceled by the courts.
“There is a problem of real application, because the law does not go through. We can not continue to have two different activities that do the same job, “ruled Alain Griset, President of the National Union of taxis, on leaving Matignon.
While the mission of mediator is supposed to last three months, Mr. Griset said “if ever that time allows to achieve a concrete result, I think we can accept these possible”
On the ground, however. , reactions were more mixed or even hostile. At the Porte Maillot, the spokesman of the CGT Taxi Asnoun Karim, said the megaphone that “the government [was their] brought contempt” and that “Valls refused to negotiate with the Inter present” on instead.
In the late afternoon, the Prefect of Police of Paris Michel Cadot urged taxi drivers to “disperse to allow Parisians to return home safely at the end of their working day “
A unheeded call.” We stay here, we will not move. It would have the prefect listening anger drivers, “replied Ahmed Senbel of FNTI told AFP.
A total of 2,100 taxis participated in protests in Paris, according to police headquarters.
In the regions, the mobilization in Lille led to incidents such as VTC drivers were attacked by taxis. The protests have disrupted around Blagnac Airport and Toulouse train station, while in the Bouches-du-Rhône, 500 taxis protested without incident.
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