Courtney Love was held hostage in Paris today… and she live tweeted it
Courtney Love Cobain is one of many tourists who have been caught in chaos and violence in Paris today, as taxi drivers violently protest in the city.
Police in Paris are currently working to quell the strikes, which were started by taxi drivers angry about the rise of Uber's budget French taxi service, UberPOP. With almost all roads leading to Paris' main airports blocked, hundreds of thousands of travellers have been affected today, including Courtney who is in France for the Cannes Lions festival.
The 50 year old couldn't help but post about the scary incident on Twitter and Instagram, sharing a series of tweets about the attack which saw her taxi destroyed and its driver held hostage.
"Dude @kanyewest we may turn back to the airport and hide out with u.picketers just attacked our car #ParisUberStrike," she wrote about an hour ago, posting a picture of her car's window covered in what looked like egg yolks.
On Instagram she referred to it as the "scariest day of my life."
"They've ambushed our car and are holding our driver hostage. they're beating the cars with metal bats. this is France?? I'm safer in Baghdad," she continued via Twitter.
Appealling to the current President of France, the rock star wrote, "François Hollande where are the fucking police??? is it legal for your people to attack visitors? Get your ass to the airport. Wtf???"
they've ambushed our car and are holding our driver hostage. they're beating the cars with metal bats. this is France?? I'm safer in Baghdad
— Courtney Love Cobain (@Courtney) June 25, 2015
François Hollande where are the fucking police??? is it legal for your people to attack visitors? Get your ass to the airport. Wtf???
— Courtney Love Cobain (@Courtney) June 25, 2015
Fortunately it seems Courtney and her entourage escaped without getting hurt, as she revealed just minutes ago that they had bribed two motorbike drives to help them escape the chaos.
"Paid some guys on motorcycles to sneak us out, got chased by a mob of taxi drivers who threw rocks, passed two police and they did nothing," she explained to her 1.95 million Twitter followers.
paid some guys on motorcycles to sneak us out, got chased by a mob of taxi drivers who threw rocks, passed two police and they did nothing
— Courtney Love Cobain (@Courtney) June 25, 2015
What a terrifying morning. We hope the remainder of Courtney's journey goes smoothly.
