Courtney Love caught up in Uber protests

French taxi drivers smashed up cars, set tyres ablaze and blocked traffic across the country in a nationwide strike aimed at Uber after weeks of rising, sometimes violent tensions over the US ride-hailing company.

Travellers going to and from the airport walked alongside roads with their bags or got caught in ambushes, like singer Courtney Love, who was rescued by two men on a motorcycle.

Love tweeted: “They’ve ambushed our car and are holding our driver hostage.