Taxi strike: the police headquarters announces the end blockages – Le Figaro

Despite some resistance including the side of the Porte Maillot, Paris, taxi drivers break camp gradually. The mediator will meet with taxis and VTC next Tuesday.

Five days is the time Aura took the taxi strike, angry against the VTC, called “taxis counterfeit.” It took the intervention of Manuel Valls for it terminates and the appointment of a mediator – a second after Thomas Thévenoud in February 2014 – to enforce the law. This Friday, twenty diehards were still posted in front of the Palais des congrès de Paris, refusing “promises” and the assurances given to the profession in the night by the Prime Minister. CRS were forced to intervene to force them to leave. Those who have decided not to move, remove their cars are seen:

Elsewhere, there is no gathering or at Bercy or the vicinity of Orly and Roissy airports. Police headquarters announced on his Twitter account that the blockades are lifted in the Paris region.

After the meeting with Manuel Valls, several professional organizations called drivers on strike at removing dams such as the National Taxi Union (UNT), which welcomed the entry into a ” positive phase. ” Others, unions (FO, CFDT, SDCTP) or associations (Taxis de France), very active in the Paris mobilization, were open to a lifting of the movement, but have indicated they consult the database prior to any decision. They say, for the most part satisfied with the measures announced by the Prime Minister on Thursday night.

“We will send letters of formal Demeur about twenty platforms. If they do not put in order, there will be sanctions “

Manuel Valls has promised notably strengthening controls VTC through the creation of a surveillance brigade, which generate no additional recruitments according to the Ombudsman, and left the door open to financial aid for the most disadvantaged taxis. This could smears tax and social security contributions. All subjects that taxis organizations will address Tuesday with the new mediator, Laurent Grandguillaume, socialist deputy of the Côte d’Or. “There is evidence of abuse by VTC, with the use of certain statutes to tax optimization and embarrass taxis, he said this morning on RTL. We will send letters of formal Demeur about twenty platforms, which will be made public, probably today. If they do not put in order, there will be sanctions. The state will be respected. ”