The VTC block access to Terminal 2 at Paris – Le Figaro

The police have managed to convince the VTC drivers leaving the area of ​​the Paris airport to the Place de la Nation where moblisation is planned. But some do not.

Third day of mobilization drivers of VTC. Headwind against pro-taxis measures, they continue their movement on Friday morning. Initially, the VTC decided to block access to terminals of Roissy airport. After about two hours of disturbances, the police would have convinced the drivers to leave the area and agreed to the esctoter to Paris and more precisely place the Nation (XI and XII), where a demonstration is planned. Contacted by Le Figaro , Aéroports de Paris confirmed that “traffic is flowing on Roissy and the access to the airports are not blocked or disturbed.”

The mobilization of VTC came a week after the announcement by the government under the pressure of a taxi of anger, of “incessant controls” to track down the drivers of VTC “fraudsters” (holders a transit license LOTI but making individual races, in defiance of the rules). The Minister of Economy, in person, which is known to support the development of platforms VTC, commented this event Thursday night, saying “it is not the government to decide on changes in the economy, but those who use mobility, and those that offer new mobility “. Suffice to say the consumers.

“We are in 2016, we must accept that the world is changing”

On Thursday, a meeting of representatives of the VTC with the appointed mediator in this conflict had ended without result. Representatives of new modes of transport were stung from being received by the Ombudsman, the deputy PS Laurent Grandguillaume, while taxis were received by the Prime Minister himself last Friday. VTC employers have also “declined the meeting” in protest. A delegation representing some of the protesters on the other hand received in early afternoon and agreed to submit proposals for regulatory changes in a week.

Six matchmaking platforms then met in turn the mediator at Matignon. Arrived shortly after 16 pm, their leaders have made in their boxes containing 150,000 letters of support. “10,000 jobs”, it was written on the boxes. “This is a market that is growing and we need to create the means to meet this growth,” argued Yves Weisselberger, head of the VTC platform Snapcar, adding that “we were able to express the distress, the risk to employment the thousands of drivers who have shown the last two days. ” Same story in the field: “We are in 2016, we must accept that the world is changing,” said Ahmed, VTC platform for US Uber, present on the Republic Square. “It’s been four years that I seek (a job) in IT, I have not found. They want to become offenders or drug dealers? “.