The interior minister said on Friday it had filed a criminal complaint against the leaders of Uber. Hollande wants qu’Uberpop be declared “illegal”. The blockade of Paris train stations and airports of Roissy and Orly was lifted on Friday but the strike continues in some major cities.
Francois Hollande had to step into the breach to calm the sling taxis. After condemning the “unacceptable violence” made when taxi drivers protests Thursday in France, estimated it at night as UberPop applying for paid conveyance between individuals should be ” dissolved and declared illegal “. This was the main demand of taxis.
“UberPOP should be disbanded and declared illegal and the seizure of vehicles should be imposed and carried out” , said President of the Republic. Before recalling: “ not the state can seize vehicles himself” before entering “be authorized by court decisions .” After his meeting Thursday night with taxi unions, the Interior Minister has also stressed that closing the application UberPop could only result from a court decision but announced that UberPOP vehicles will “systematically seized when caught in the act.”
Friday morning on RTL (see video below), Bernard Cazeneuve in the offensive, announced that it had filed a criminal complaint against the leaders of Uber. He described their attitude of “cynical and arrogant “; a reference to the declaration of Symphal Thibaud, the owner of Uber France who estimated yesterday that “ the prefectural in Paris changes nothing, UberPOP can continue “. And the Minister specify: “ There are criminal investigations in progress (…) they will go to an end and we will further enhance the tracking phenomenon for those who are behind these offenses <. / em> “
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Blockade lifted in Paris
Both announcements and pronouncements that have reduce tension, at least in the capital. Friday in Paris, the blockade of the taxis in front of stations was lifted as the North Station, where taxis were working normally on Friday morning. The traffic was also normal at airports in . Orly and Roissy and access platforms released except Porte Maillot, the movement is generally raised in the capital
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But in the regions, pockets of resistance remained, as in Marseilles or Nice, where access to the airport is blocked.
“ We call for the lifting of the blockade, we are for dialogue Always dialogue “, said Friday on Europe 1 Delomel Christian, president of the Chambre Syndicale artisans taxi. The National Union of Taxi Industries (UNIT), which brings together a large number of professional organizations, also called on its members to return to work “on Friday morning,” considering that “ the climate of confidence has been restored “after meeting with the Interior Minister. “ We have obtained sufficient pledges to call for a resumption of activity ,” it added in a statement. “ We advise drivers to break camp, for us the strike is lifted ,” said for his part told AFP Abdel Ghalfi, of the CFDT.
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“ But some taxis want to stay Porte Maillot ” instead of the Parisian west they block since Thursday morning, he added late evening, without excluding new “isolated actions”. “If a large number of taxis want to continue, we will support the ,” warned Karim Asnoun (CGT). More radical, Ibrahima Sylla, the organization Taxis de France, assured wanting to continue the movement. “ Taxis remain Porte Maillot “, he began. A hundred of ex were on hand Friday morning (see video below)
10 people arrested
Yesterday, the day of mobilization taxis was marred by violence, some 3,000 angry taxis have blocked railway stations and airports to denounce “wild competition” of the mobile application. Ten people were arrested “under the excesses seen during the protests of taxi drivers” , seven police officers injured and 70 vehicles damaged
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Clashes, passengers trying to walk to the blocked airports, cars overturned taxis … the conflict against Uber gave France a picture disastrous. Condemning violence “ineligible” , Prime Minister Manuel Valls has promised that the perpetrators, “that are in both camps” be “pursued”. Lawyers of UberPOP drivers have accused them of organizing taxis “in private militias ” and mount “ ambushes.”
UberPop “may continue”
As for the American group VTC Uber (legal activity), which also offers UberPop (illegal activity ), it challenges the constitutionality of the law on road transport and has appealed his conviction to 100,000 euro fine for improperly presented UberPOP as a carpool service. This call, which will be reviewed in October, is suspensive, Uber has maintained its service at bargain prices. Its managing director for France, Thibaud Simphal, assured yesterday that pending court decisions, “UberPOP can continue” . “There has already been a judicial decision and UberPOP was not considered illegal” , he said Friday morning on France Info
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