The VTC and Loti drivers unleash nothing. Hundreds of them gathered Tuesday Place de la Nation in Paris for a new day of mobilization against the assurances recently given by the Government to taxis.
Hundreds of black sedans, 1200 as organizers, 500 to 600 according to journalists from Agence France-Presse, were parked in the center of the main square in eastern Paris, allowing free movement in a single lane. In the background, the rapper Notorious B.I.G. succeeds Daniel Balavoine, alternating with horns concerts. Number of protesters placed on the windshield placards or wearing T-shirts proclaiming: “10 000 jobs at risk”, “We are badly off”, “Valls kill me” or “Valls = G7″ company francilienne taxis.
“It puts us on the guillotine”
“This is our fifth day of mobilization,” noted François Joseph before the media, President, Association Alternative mobility Transport (AMT), advanced organization in the protests since last week. The socialist deputy of Côte-d’Or Laurent Grandguillaume appointed mediator by the government, began consultations with the different actors of individual transport, but Joseph Francis said that “the government has (Vait) not understand that had to pronounce a judgment action, the time that Laurent Grandguillaume conducts its work forward. ” “We are negotiating at the same time that we place on the guillotine,” he denounced.
The mobilization scheduled until 18 hours especially concerning transmission drivers demand practicing with a transit license (Loti), in which taxis accuse perform individual races in defiance of the law. After a moment of anger taxis late January, the government announced “incessant controls” to track down the drivers of VTC (passenger car with driver) “fraudsters” and given until the end of February about twenty booking platforms VTC (Uber, Driver-Private, SnapCar, etc.) to achieve compliance.
“A lost cause”
“we just want them to let us work, they do not close the apps (for access to platforms, Ed) for Loti on 28 February. it is nothing without that, it’s 80% of our turnover, “pleaded Carlos Da Silva, 21, an employee of a company Loti since December. “We begin to see that this limit is a lost cause, but at least 28 if we’re screwed, we will be fought to the end. A big part of the drivers are young cities, there are some years they burned cars. there they have a project, “he argued.
Fouad Baadache, boss holds a capacity Loti and also employing VTC drivers, wants to show his government “feeling of incomprehension”: “the State has promoted taxis, there is no neutrality,” he lamented. “Soon nobody but them can work.” Some have already given up, as Rudi Sombe, 28, a former employee of a capability (Loti). “I stopped working on Thursday because a colleague was caught accepting clients out of the Gare de Lyon. He had to pay 1500 euro fine and has made him to the police. It already has enough problems as it is, I do not want to do anything illegal, “he said.
Uber suspended 4:00
The platforms that use drivers Loti have said from the beginning to support the movement, and the AMT asked to symbolically stop their activities Tuesday “to show policymakers what would a France without drivers.” Only Uber responded favorably to this request, suspending access to its application between 11 and 15 hours.
Twenty representatives of the platform were at Nation and distributing snacks to drivers. For his part, the Commissioner of Police of Paris Michel Cadot warned that his services would ensure guarantee public order. “For 15 days are significant disruptions experienced by Parisians due to these repetitive events that impede traffic during peak hours. It is not normal that it continues further,” he said.
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