Uber vs anti-Uber city mob worldwide violence

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Unlicensed taxis confrontation with PRC mata

Protests in various countries.

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Courtney Love attacked by anti-Uber protesters in Paris






An overturned UberPop vehicle, tossed over by French taxi drivers as they clash with riot police, during a demonstration against the app-based transportation network and taxi company Uber's UberPop service in Paris, France, 25 June 2015
Picture: EPA
By Henry Samuel, Paris
12:25PM BST 25 Jun 2015
Singer and former wife of Kurt Cobain claims she would be "safer in Baghdad" after her car is attacked by picketers in Paris

American singer Courtney Love Cobain has been attacked by violent anti-Uber taxi protesters in Paris.

French taxi drivers staged strike protests against the app-based UberPOP service, blocking the entrances to airports in Paris and several cities and attacking rival drivers and their cars.

Love told fellow singer Kanye West she was caught in the clashes, with her Uber vehicle and driver targetted by furious cabbies with metal bars and likening Paris to Bagdad.



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The singer issued a second expletive-filled tweet asking president François Hollande "where are the ******* police?" and to get his "ass to the aiport".

With the situation degenerating in particular at flashpoints across the French capital, the interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve issued a placatory decree at lunchtime ordering police to “ban the use of Uber in Paris”

The day began when furious French cabbies blocked the entrance to Paris’ two main airports of Roissy Charles de Gaulle and Orly, meaning many passengers had to walk along the motorway to reach their terminals.

The roads around Gare du Nord, the terminus for the London to Paris Eurostar service were also blocked, with Uber cars attacked;

Public transport was reaching saturation point.

Parts of the city’s “péripherique” ring road were briefly shut down after taxi drivers erected roadblocks, burning tyres and overturning cars suspected of belonging to untrained drivers using the UberPOP smart phone application, which they say is unfair competition.

Riot police fired tear gas canisters at cabbies at Paris’ western Porte Maillot to prevent them converging at the Place de l’Etoile around the Arc de Triomphe.

Cabbies attacked the van of Julien Cinquin, a motorist at Porte Maillot, slashing his tyres and the rear window and throw a banger in the back seat.

“This is my work tool, it’s going to cost me a fortune and I don’t know what to do,” he told TV channel TF1.

Malia, 50, an authorised taxi driver, said: “Up until recently, cabbies never protested. But these people have families to feed and debts to pay. They’re at the end of their tether.”

At Roissy airport, Roissy, Jose Diogues, another taxi driver, said: “We can see the UberPOP drivers a mile off. We want to finish them off. It’s banned and they keep on pixxxxx us off.”

UberPOP, the American company’s lowest-cost service was banned in France on January 1, but its drivers continue to ply French roads and Uber is actively recruiting.

This is a source of intense annoyance to taxi drivers who pay up to €250,000 for their permits and complain that Uber unfairly undercuts them.

In recent weeks nearly 100 Uber drivers have been attacked, sometimes while carrying customers. In one case, a taxi passenger was left with a broken face and black eye after he praised Uber.



Other customers complaint classic taxi drivers are often rude, rarely available, and resistant to changes such as credit cards and geolocation.

Serge Metz CEO of the G7 taxi service acknowledged it that quality of service could be improved, but that unfair competition was making drivers' lives impossible.

"This is the first time we've had a multinational so cynical that, in every country where it operates, flouts the laws in place and lobbies with an army of lawyers and lobbyists to change the laws to suit its activity," Mr Metz said.

The government says nearly 500 legal cases have been filed across France involving complaints about UberPop.

"The economy is not the law of the jungle," Claude Bartolone, head of France's National Assembly, told BFM television.

Overall, some 2,800 taxis were on strike around France, with cities including Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice and Toulouse all affected.








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