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PARIS: The launch of an Apple store on the Champs Elysees in Paris was greeted on Sunday by a protest against the US multinational's controversial fiscal practices.
Activists from the tax campaign group Attac gathered on the celebrated boulevard, wearing coloured wigs and party hats, throwing confetti and chanting:"Apple, pay your taxes!" The group had staged a sit-in at Apple's flagship Paris store in December 2017, and in February a French court declined to approve a ban on such actions following a request by the US computer giant.
"We have come to celebrate in our own way the inauguration of Apple's Champs Elysees store, to remind people that Apple is one of the biggest tax evaders in the world," Attac spokeswoman Aurelie Trouve told AFP at the protest, which featured a brass band.
Apple, the first US company to attain one trillion dollars in market capitalisation, grew in part owing"to the fact that it extorts billions of euros from citizens, notably European and French, through fiscal evasion of its profits," the spokeswoman said. (AFP)
