An activist of the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and Citizen's Action (ATTAC) stage a protest against alleged tax evasion by US multinational technology company Apple at an Apple store in Paris on December 2, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT
PARIS: About a hundred activists occupied an Apple store in the French capital on Dec 2, demanding that the US technology giant pay billions of euros the EU says it owes in back taxes.
The members from Attac, a group that seeks alternatives to unbridled globalisation, invaded the expansive two-level store near the Paris Opera for several hours – leaving only after they were assured of a meeting with management.
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