11/18/2020 3:37 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/18/2020 3:37 PM
"If I don't get off now, I won't tell her anymore," Sofia thought early Monday as she took a taxi home.
She had gone to a birthday party in the center of Rosario and hurriedly paid before arriving because she was
afraid of being kidnapped
.
She heard the chauffeur speak on the phone to order food and
assumed it was code messages
about her.
His complaint through social networks went viral in hours and then he went to the Prosecutor's Office, but the driver assures that it was only a confusion.
Anguished and crying, the young woman who studies social communication decided to share what had happened to her through her public Instagram account.
The compiled stories last
almost 9 minutes
and had a great impact at the beginning of the week.
In the same account that he was scared because the driver exchanged audio messages to see with another person if they were going to order pizza or a toast.
Specifically, he explained that
he remembered the case of Jeffrey Epstein
, the American millionaire involved in the sexual abuse of boys and girls.
On Tuesday, the 53-year-old man behind the wheel denied the accusations against him.
Gustavo explained that he
was talking to his son and daughter on WhatsApp
and that he was surprised when the girl got off on Spain and Bulevar 27 de Febrero.
The taxi driver denounced by a young passenger for attempted kidnapping appeared to testify this Tuesday.
Courtesy: Mauro Yaspirzza
He appeared at the Criminal Justice Center with his phone and also made the car's GPS data available to prove that he had gone to a delicatessen.
He also confirmed that he was detained at the corner where the trip ended, something that scared the passenger, although he claimed that it was only to
notify his family
that he had vacated earlier than planned.
The Public Prosecutor's Office (MPA) received the girl's statement and later it emerged that
another young woman had identified the same taxi driver
in relation to another similar episode.
The first testimony is already in the hands of the prosecutor Ramiro González Raggio in the Crimes against Sexual Integrity unit to define whether to open a criminal case.
Also, the official summoned the second person to testify with the same objective.
Sofía managed to get home safely, but
terrified
by what she had experienced.
When she got out, she waved to a passing car and three boys on board stopped to assist her.
At that moment they offered to go to the police station to make the complaint, but he just wanted to get to his destination.
"I had
suspicions that he was going to at least one place of trafficking
," he said when asking his followers to share the videos to prevent other victims from falling into the trap.
That Sofía Echazarreta apologize publicly for ruining the life of a worker and his family.
If you did not feel comfortable, it is perfect that you got out of the taxi, now in the same way that you got home and recorded yourself telling what happened, that you have the lucidity to ask for forgiveness.
- SASCHA.
(@Bressicese) November 17, 2020
The young Rosario made a strong defense in relation to her case and stated: "You cannot go to have a beer with your friends because you are a woman, you are cannon fodder for whatever it is.
I am literally an object, something to eat
."
On the other hand, referents from the taxi chambers were
upset by the accusations
that fell on the driver from the recording and in the middle the discussion on the subject was expanded.
Beyond what may happen in the judicial field, Sofía received multiple expressions of support for asking "for the girls to come alive" and suggest that
her story serve "so that SheTaxi does not fall
."
Beyond the fact that the audios of the taxi driver are real or have been recorded later, beyond the man being honest, beyond everything, Sofía is all of us when we get into a taxi and we do not know if we are going to reach our destination or in the road they will rape or kidnap us, we are AFRAID
- influessen (@soupe__) November 17, 2020
Thus he alluded to the conflict over the mobile application that allows hiring public service drivers.
Two weeks ago, the workers even made a caravan around the city in defense of the platform and recalled that it is a non-profit system.
"It is to take care of each other among women," they emphasized.
Rosary beads. Correspondent.
DD
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