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| Subject: Socialist Econ Retards: Traffic chaos in France as taxis drivers condemn Uber Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:46 am | |
| Paris police have fired tear gas at taxi drivers trying to march onto a major highway, amid nationwide French strikes and protests over working conditions and competition from non-traditional services such as Uber.
Hundreds of French taxis, joined by a few from Belgium and Spain, blocked a massive intersection leading into western Paris, causing traffic chaos. Police said that about 2000 taxis had blocked or delayed traffic around Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports. Some taxi drivers set fire to tyres and tried to block the highway that circles the French capital, but the police pushed the demonstrators back with tear gas.
Separately air traffic controllers went on strike, disrupting flights at several airports.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/traffic-chaos-in-france-as-taxis-drivers-condemn-uber-and-air-traffic-controllers-strike-20160126-gmeqln.html#ixzz3yQOirQLR |
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