This is undoubtedly the great story of the week.
While she was supposed to go to Toulouse to give a kidney to her brother who was due to undergo a transplant, a good sister from Lorient (Morbihan) missed her plane because of a demonstration by taxi drivers, reports France Bleu.
Dissatisfied, the latter blocked the main access to Nantes airport on Wednesday February 14.
Moved by this story, the drivers who demonstrated for the third time in two weeks to protest in particular against competition from VTCs, then decided to club together to help the nun who was unaware of this movement.
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It was then that Mounir Jouad, 43, offered to take him to Toulouse for free, with money from the kitty.
He leaves Nantes at 5:30 p.m. and travels 600 km to drop the nun off at one of her friends in Toulouse, where he will be invited to dinner and a coffee before taking the road in the opposite direction, to return to Loire-Atlantique.
The good sister speaks of a “miracle”
“I took the road to Toulouse without thinking because his brother was scheduled for surgery and he was waiting for his sister to arrive so that she could donate her kidney,” he tells our colleagues.
“If we did this, it’s to show the good image of Nantes taxis,” he adds.
Nantes airport blocked by taxis: a good sister from Lorient misses her plane, a driver takes her to Toulouse
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“Very happy”, the good sister tells her that it is a “miracle” so she was able to give her kidney to her brother early Thursday morning.
“We can make gestures from time to time, we are human.
Our first mission is to serve people and then there is the financial aspect of course,” assures the taxi driver.
Jérôme Bernouis, the president of the Professional Chamber of Taxi Craftsmen in Loire-Atlantique, notes that this mobilization “ends on a good note”.
History does not say whether Mounir's good action weighed in the prefecture's decision to guarantee strikers that there would be reinforced controls, day and night, to fight against unfair competition from VTCs.