I don't live in Paris but we have them in our small city in the US and they are a nuisance. We're only a rather small < 60k population city with a ~200k popula

I don't live in Paris but we have them in our small city in the US and they are a nuisance. We're only a rather small < 60k population city with a ~200k population metro area, but we have a university and these scooters are everywhere. They're left on sidewalks, in parks, in the road. College kids fly by you going far faster than is appropriate. Life altering injuries from crashes have been reported. There are numerous problems and it's not just the scooters, obviously, and I know I'm a curmudgeon. But I find these companies to be abusing the commons. The scooters are left everywhere because these companies have no parking or maintenance infrastructure and actively rely on users leaving them on sidewalks.