There is a civil war underway within Uber, and it is playing out in a Parisian court.

Two top executives in the Silicon Valley ride-hailing giant’s European offices face charges of brushing off French taxi laws that could earn them jail time. At the start of a contentious two-day trial in Paris’s Palais de Justice, Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, who was Uber’s general manager for Western Europe at the time he was indicted, and Thibaud Simphal, the head of Uber operations in France, are accused of flouting regulations in their lowest-cost service, UberPop, by hiring drivers without professional licenses. The move has angered French taxis drivers, who say the company has gotten around licensing fees and taxes and rules that keep passengers safe. Uber has since complied, shutting down the UberPop service in France, along with its similar operations in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. But it still calls the French system outdated, according to The Wall Street Journal, arguing that they have been unfairly targeted.

Over the course of the nine-hour appearance on their first day in court, the two Uber executives, who face five years behind bars, argued that it was Uber’s U.S. and Netherlands offices that were responsible for making the decisions that landed them there. “I simply organized the promotion of the service to users and drivers,” Gore-Coty said, according to the W.S.J. “It wasn’t my role nor was I qualified to judge its legality.” At one point, Simphal pointed out that documents the courtroom was using to show communications to UberPop drivers were in English, meaning that they had to stem from American or Netherland operations.

The blame game among executives reveals a divide in leadership at Uber, which is already under incredible pressure in its European markets, particularly France, as well as closer to home. Driver protests in Paris have roiled the taxi industry and brought traffic in the city to a standstill, resulting in stricter restrictions that have impacted Uber’s hiring practices. Last month, the company was ordered to pay €1.2 million to a taxi union, following a €150,000 fine at the end of last year. In the U.S., Uber drivers have been protesting wage cuts across the country, and a class-action lawsuit from its drivers continues to hang over the company.

Many companies, at one point or another, experience employee disagreements or executive spats. Not many young companies experience them at the same time, on such a large scale. Uber’s mentality toward these “outdated” local systems is predicated on the idea that customers, rather than being loyal, will choose a car-hailing service based on what serves them best and costs them least. Uber’s corporate infighting points to the same mentality among its executives—a culture of looking out for oneself regardless of whether the person getting thrown under the bus is supposed to play for the same team.