Paris Becomes the First European Capital to Ban Rented Electric Scooters

As Paris’s experiment with e-scooters came to an end on Friday, Anne-Marie Moreno set out on her morning walk feeling just a little more peaceful. Ms. Moreno, a 78-year-old retiree who was knocked over by a man riding an electric scooter a few years back, was luxuriating in the calm of her neighborhood.

She didn’t come across a single person on an e-scooter.

Paris became the first European capital to outlaw the vehicles on Friday, following a vote in April in which Parisiens overwhelmingly…