Object of the decision
The Criminal Court severely condemned the HEETCH platform , which connects drivers and passengers, and its managers, in the judgment delivered on March 2, 2017.
Indeed, the Court has, in particular:
- On public action:
- Declared the platform and its leaders guilty of:
- Deceptive business practices
- Illegal organization of a system for connecting customers with persons engaged in the road transport of people for payment in vehicles with fewer than ten seats
- Complicity in the illegal exercise of the activity of taxi operator: lack of authorization to park on the road open to public traffic while waiting for customers
- The platform was ordered to pay a fine of 200,000 euros
- Each of the directors was sentenced to pay a fine of 10,000 euros
- Declared the platform and its leaders guilty of:
- On the civil action:
- Jointly and severally ordered the three defendants to pay the sum of 300 euros in damages to the civil parties listed in the judgment in compensation for their moral prejudice as well as various sums under Article 475-1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure
- Jointly and severally ordered the three defendants to pay each of the ten civil parties representing the taxi profession the sum of 800 euros in damages in compensation for their moral prejudice and jointly and severally the sum of 2,400 euros under Article 475-1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure
- Ordered provisional execution
This decision is final.
