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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/business/international/uber-protests-france.html
PARIS — Irate taxi drivers blocked roads, burned tires and attacked drivers who they thought were working for Uber, the ride-hailing company, during a day of protests Thursday that disrupted Paris and slowed traffic to a crawl.
The strike in France is the latest in a series of challenges confronting Uber, which is based in San Francisco, in a number of European countries in which it operates. The taxi associations here oppose the company’s efforts to expand its low-cost UberPop service.
Fights broke out on streets, a couple of cars were burned and travelers were frustrated all over Paris and in major cities elsewhere in France, where the labor battle snarled several cities’ streets.
“We are against the government,” said Nader Moghimi, 49, who has driven a taxi for nine years in Paris. “Their role is to protect us. If Uber is doing some economic terrorism, the government has to react.”
Edit for some celebrity news as well:
http://www.thelocal.fr/20150625/france-taxi-protests-tourists-and-courtney-love-tourists
Rocker Courtney Love blasted the French president on Thursday saying "where are the ******ing police" after the car she was travelling in was attacked in violent anti-Uber protests in Paris.
Love wrote on Twitter that protesters were whacking vehicles with metal bats and "ambushed our car and are holding our driver hostage," adding "I'm safer in Baghdad."
PARIS — Irate taxi drivers blocked roads, burned tires and attacked drivers who they thought were working for Uber, the ride-hailing company, during a day of protests Thursday that disrupted Paris and slowed traffic to a crawl.
The strike in France is the latest in a series of challenges confronting Uber, which is based in San Francisco, in a number of European countries in which it operates. The taxi associations here oppose the company’s efforts to expand its low-cost UberPop service.
Fights broke out on streets, a couple of cars were burned and travelers were frustrated all over Paris and in major cities elsewhere in France, where the labor battle snarled several cities’ streets.
“We are against the government,” said Nader Moghimi, 49, who has driven a taxi for nine years in Paris. “Their role is to protect us. If Uber is doing some economic terrorism, the government has to react.”
Edit for some celebrity news as well:
http://www.thelocal.fr/20150625/france-taxi-protests-tourists-and-courtney-love-tourists
Rocker Courtney Love blasted the French president on Thursday saying "where are the ******ing police" after the car she was travelling in was attacked in violent anti-Uber protests in Paris.
Love wrote on Twitter that protesters were whacking vehicles with metal bats and "ambushed our car and are holding our driver hostage," adding "I'm safer in Baghdad."
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