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February 13, 2018

Apple Seeks Court Injunction Against French Tax Protesters
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And in France, computer giant Apple has asked a court in Paris to bar
tax campaigners from holding protests at its stores. Since December,
members of the group Attac have been staging demonstrations at Apple
stores in Paris calling for an end to Apple's complex efforts to avoid
paying European Union taxes. This is tax activist Aurélie Trouvé.

Aurélie Trouvé: "The world's biggest multinational company practices
massive tax evasion, and we are calling this out through civil
disobedience. Since we hit a nerve, because Apple cannot tolerate its
image being harmed, and because we're informing people that Apple
practices tax evasion, they filed an urgent court order against us
through what is a called a gag order, meaning that-at least this is what
they are asking-we will have to pay 150,000 euros if we hold any future
demonstrations against an Apple store."



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