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> and if you're a lobby (and they clearly are), you even don't get arrested

Taxis are, in France, under the tutelage of The Ministry of Interior. They also have strong historical ties with the political party currently in power.

The principal taxi company had or still has, within its ranks, a close friend of a former French president (François Mitterand, same party as the current one), and the former Cabinet Treasurer for the current president's campaign.