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Will Paris’s ban stop e-scooters killing people?

2 September 2023

6:49 PM

2 September 2023

6:49 PM

Rental e-scooters have been banned from Paris since Friday after residents of the French capital were asked to decide their fate in a referendum. The vote, held in April, attracted a low turnout, with only 103,000 of the city’s 1.38 million men and women bothering to cast their ballot. Of those that did, however, 90 per cent voted to rid their streets of rental scooters.

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