Paris Uber Driver Held Hostage by 'Mob of Taxi Drivers' - Courtney Love Attacked
Courtney Love Attacked in Paris, Uber Driver Held Hostage
by 'Mob of Taxi Drivers'
By Jason Lipshutz, New York | June 25, 2015 8:37 AM EDT
"They've ambushed our car and are holding our driver
hostage," Love shared on Twitter.
Courtney Love was attacked in Paris on Thursday (June 25)
by what she described as a "mob of taxi drivers." Taxi workers have
been recently using blockades in European cities to picket Uber, as the mobile
car-hailing service has hurt their industry; on Thursday, that picketing turned
violent with Love in tow.
"Dude @kanyewest we may turn back to the airport and
hide out with u.picketers just attacked our car #ParisUberStrike," Love
wrote on Twitter on Thursday. "they've ambushed our car and are holding
our driver hostage. they're beating the cars with metal bats. this is France??
I'm safer in Baghdad."
Love then appealed directly to French president François
Hollande: "where are the fucking police??? is it legal for your people to
attack visitors? Get your ass to the airport. Wtf???"
Love, who recently opened for Lana Del Rey on her Endless
Summer tour, continued, "[P]aid some guys on motorcycles to sneak us out,
got chased by a mob of taxi drivers who threw rocks, passed two police and they
did nothing."
The singer-songwriter shared a photo of a car window
smashed in, as well as an Instagram video of a group of men angrily speaking to
her Uber driver. The whereabouts of Kanye West, who Love tagged in her first
tweet about the incident, are not known.
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