France is on strike to the ground and in the air

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France is on strike to the ground and in the air

Half a year after the first protests make French taxi driver back in your hands about car services like Uber, air. Again it came to violence. For additional traffic concerns other strikes.

In Paris blocked in the Morning, several hundred taxi drivers one of the Hauptzufahrtstraßen in the capital. After Behördenangaben came to the traffic at the Porte Maillot, a transportation hub of the city, but not completely to a Standstill. Additional cars were on access roads to the airports Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports. Also in Marseille and Toulouse, it came to similar actions.

French media such as France 24 show images of a burning car tyres in Paris and reports that police have used tear gas to the protesters from the streets to distribute. The French Auslandsfernsehen provides information in a Live-Ticker about the events:

With the Arbeitsausstand protest of the taxi drivers against the increasing competition from non-licensed car services, including Uber. You see, economically cornered and throw of the competition, is a violation of applicable rules.

In the case of similar protests in June, it was also to
violent clashes have come.
President François Hollande spoke at that time for a ban on Uber. The excesses he condemned at the same time as “in a democracy, not to accept violence”.

On sat after the protests and the indictment of two top executives
temporarily his service in France.

5.6 million employees to strikes called

Due to a strike of air traffic controllers against planned ‘ salaries in protest, fall in France, many flights. The aviation authority DGAC called the airlines to do this, every fifth of scheduled flights to cancel.

Also the 5.6 million employees of the public service is to work stoppage and demonstrations called. The sector is been years of cuts affected. Nationwide there are more than one hundred Protestkundgebungen planned. So do the teachers against the school reform on the road.

boron/as (afp, dpa, france 24)