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Litigation on the cost of the ride, taxi driver attacks a customer in Florence - Tuscany

2022-01-14T17:17:52.599Z


Kick and slap filmed on video. Via a disciplinary procedure


Attack by a taxi driver on a customer in the center of Florence last night: this was also shown by a video broadcast on social media. The driver would have hit the customer first with a kick and then with a slap. The police intervened on the spot with agents from the San Giovanni police station. The victim, a Canadian tourist, is currently not reporting the incident. The attack would have been triggered during a discussion about the fare. The 4242 Socota taxi driver cooperative intervened on the matter, announcing that it had initiated disciplinary proceedings against the taxi driver, its associate. "Having seen the video - explained in a statement released by Socota -, 4242 condemns without reserve the behavior of the colleague, whatever the events previously occurred.4242 has already opened a disciplinary procedure to ascertain the facts and possibly adopt the acts provided for by the statute and the internal regulations of the cooperative for these cases, it being understood that any provision relating to the license can only fall within the exclusive competence of the administration. municipal ".

The cooperative of taxi drivers 4242 Socota has announced that it has initiated disciplinary proceedings against one of its associates. According to a press release, the taxi driver is accused of attacking one of his clients yesterday morning in Florence in via Tornabuoni. The scene would have been filmed by a camera: "Having seen the video - explains the statement released by Socota -, 4242 condemns unreservedly the behavior of his colleague, whatever the events previously occurred. 4242 has already opened a disciplinary procedure to ascertain the facts and possibly adopt the acts provided for by the statute and the internal regulations of the cooperative for these cases, it being understood that any provision relating to the license can only fall within the exclusive competence of themunicipal administration ".

As witnessed by a video also released on social media, the taxi driver would have hit the customer first with a kick and then with a slap. The state police intervened on the spot with agents from the San Giovanni police station. The victim, a Canadian tourist, is currently not reporting the incident. The attack would be triggered during a discussion about the fare.    

"Last night's brutal assault on a woman by the taxi driver is unprecedented and deplorable. I immediately reported the fact to the commissioner. I expect a thorough investigation and exemplary punishment for this person, unworthy of performing a public service. This is not Florence. ". Mayor Dario Nardella writes it on twitter, commenting on the attack suffered by a Canadian tourist, hit with a kick and a slap by a taxi driver after it seems like a discussion on the cost of the ride. 

 "We learn with regret that a taxi driver on the evening of Thursday 13 January beat a user in the center of Florence. The man, next to his car, parked in Piazza Santa Trinita, first kicked and then slapped a customer, this episode cannot go unpunished, moreover the gravity of the gesture is exacerbated by the fact that it was a woman who paid the price for the taxi driver's violence ". This was declared in a note by the national secretariats of the trade union structures of the Federtaxi Cisal, Ugl Taxi, Tam, Satam, Claai, Unimpresa, Or.sa taxi, Ati taxi, Usb Taxi Fast Confsal Tpnl, Confail Taxi and Associazione Tutela Legale Taxi categories.

    "We ask that the Judiciary proceed as soon as possible to ascertain the facts - they add - and to punish the violent and that the Municipality of Florence and the Prefect immediately suspend the license and revoke the professional requirements so that these subjects can no longer perform an activity that instead has an important social role.


    We are completely in solidarity with the victim attacked and - concludes the note - we would like to specify that such behaviors damage an entire category made up of tens of thousands of honest operators and fathers of families ". 

Source: ansa

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