The organizers wanted a running “silent” . It missed. They also wanted the “peaceful and non-violent” . A word not always follow orders. Several hundred drivers specialized in public transit gathered at 11 am on Wednesday, on the boulevard du Montparnasse. This mobilization takes place after the Government, faced with the wrath of taxis last week announced measures to fight against the misuse of drivers licenses Loti (public transport on demand) by booking platforms.
the Secretary of State for Transport has sent formal notices Friday to twenty of these platforms (Uber, SnapCar, Driver-Private, etc.) to remind them that Loti licenses, faster to obtain than VTC driver cards, apply for public transit, that is to say for two passengers minimum, not the particular transport. But a very large part – difficult to quantify – of these drivers on applications hold Loti licenses and regularly charge customers only. Reservation companies are now under pressure to enforce the law and ensure that these drivers carry a minimum of two passengers. What seems difficult to apply, hence the fear of this profession of being spread platforms.
“We do not want to scratch the State”
” for four years I worked on platforms with this license and, since last week, suddenly, we are told that we are in illegality ‘, will prevail Redouane Kharej, driver Loti, who admits to not being able to get by without the applications. “We trusted a system, it was launched without asking any questions. If we had known it was illegal, you really think we would climb indebted to our business? “ The protesters are demanding the right to stay on applications and can carry a single customer. They ask the government to amend the law which imposes the minimum two passengers, to grant them automatically and all the VTC license. Hachani Bassem claims the “right to work” . “We are not victims, we do not want to scratch the state. But we do not want to return to the RSA, we do not want to come home. “
The question is whether their claims are heard. The event is organized by the association Alternative Mobility Transport (AMT), which includes a dozen companies Loti. “We informed our drivers [mobilization] and told them it would be great if they could participate,” said Yves Weisselberger CEO SnapCar. But many organizations VTC have not called for demonstrations. Either because the AMT, founded in January, makes them suspicious – it is a “ghost association” , denounced Helmi Mamlouk, president of the Union of capability and hybrid drivers. Either because this mobilization is supported by all booking platforms, while a rumbling motion climbs within VTC against the conditions imposed by these applications, Uber head. Either because they are not against a strict respect of the law, which would allow them to recover much of customers picked up by Loti drivers. In the end, about 250 cars were present at Montparnasse. While there, according to various sources, about 70,000 Loti drivers in France and about 10 000 of them on platforms in Paris and the Paris region. One of these drivers is perplexing. “It is not enough solidarity, we will not succeed.”
Clear eggs
This may be the reason why a handful of protesters began to ignite after a half-hour too quiet for his taste mobilization. While the organizers had asked them to come with bottled water, a symbol of service to customers, drivers preferred to bring eggs that, inevitably, ended up on the windows of the few taxis that have ventured in Montparnasse. “This is how we we hear” , a driver yells. A young stands in the way of a taxi and throws him a “fuck your mother” . “son of a bitch” fly rhythm thrown eggs. The violence of some taxis in previous demonstrations pushed the sound. “They fucked me three cars, you think I’ll keep my mouth shut? is justified a driver. It’s like in the cities, loose another. If you are not crush, they shall crush you! “ The vast majority of protesters multiply calls quiet. “No violence” , “we are not like them” , “do not give a bad image of us” , lancent- they loop.
at 12 h 30, the procession of black cars was snorts boulevard Montparnasse direction Invalides, in a procession of honking. And expects a prompt declaration of Manuel Valls. Otherwise, provide some, the move could quickly harden
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