However, the government stopped short of implementing the main demand of the protesters: a block on the smartphone app without which the on-demand UberPOP service can not operate.

Uber on the other hand, is still trying to work their way into the legal system and asked their drivers to maintain operations. The protest caused a big traffic near the airport where the American singer Courtney Love Cobin was stuck in the chaos.

She later added, “they’ve ambushed our auto and are holding our driver hostage. they’re beating the cars with metal bats. this is France?? I’m safer in Baghdad“.

“Dude @kanyewest we may turn back to the airport and hide out with u.picketers just attacked our vehicle #ParisUberStrike” she wrote, along with a photo of her car’s window with egg all over it.

The French President François Hollande denounced the violence that erupted in the protest but also expressed sympathy towards the protestors.

Hollande said that UberPOP “doesn’t respect the laws”.

The probe focuses on one of the company’s several local transport options known as UberPOP, which allows passengers to book rides with non-professional drivers via their mobile phones, infuriating taxi operators.

This is the shocking moment a brick was launched at an UberPOP taxi as enraged cabbies’ protest over low fares. Budapest saw hundreds of taxi drivers last week take to the streets in protest.

Arslan Foury said the FO taxi union would be taking a different road after the strike.

There were reports of groups of taxi drivers “hunting down” suspected Uber drivers at Charles de Gaulle and Roissy Airports. “There will not be anything to pay -‐-‐ nothing to pay”, said Foury. While it has been banned by the government here and in other countries, the service is still available on the app until it is ordered by courts not to be.

The app has already been banned in the Netherlands and Spain, and is appealing bans in France and Germany. But he said that the executive branch can not do that without further action through the courts.