Around a hundred taxi drivers gathered at the Old Port on Friday morning, June 28. Parked in front of the town hall, before the start of the municipal council, some of them responded to the call from the Utif and SDTM unions to denounce the action of the municipal councilor (PM) in charge of the file, Sami Benfers.
Another part of the drivers organized, at the same time and at the same time, a counter-demonstration to support municipal action on the subject.
“We are mobilizing to denounce the desire of municipal councilor Sami Benfers to create new free licensesexplains Yazid Ziani, president of the Utif union in Marseille. Marseille is the provincial city best equipped with taxis and the creation of new ADS (parking authorization) would have a disastrous effect on all professionals, who are already experiencing one of the most difficult Junes in 10 years. We ask for this creation project to be abandoned and want to be received by the mayor of Marseille, since dialogue with his advisor is now impossible.“
On Place Bargemon, the other camp of drivers, tenants of their license, came to support the City’s policy.These unions jump at the slightest opportunity to denigrate the work of Sami Benfers, believes Said Djefaflia, for the LUTM unionWe are accused of political proximity with the municipal councilor but this proximity is only motivated by the merits of his action and his desire to advance the world of taxis.“
In both camps, we promise to make the mobilization last until the end of the municipal council, at the end of the morning.
The pre-municipal council meeting was very lively this morning since, in addition to taxis, shopkeepers from 6-8, school staff and teams from the Toursky theatre also came to present their demands to the chamber.
