At the airport - Two taxi drivers came to blows

13 years, 6 months ago - 6 May 2011

The dispute between taxi drivers based at the airport SSR and those whose operation is based elsewhere but choose to work at the airport did not start yesterday.Cohabitation is conflicting. It took very little that the protagonists do not come to blows, sometimes under the incredulous eyes of tourists. Yet another incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon. The taxi driver Riad Luchmun accused another driver to have beaten in the face at the airport.

This Plaine-Magnien capita recorded testimony against her alleged abuser. The source of this aggression, a war of customers. According to Riad Luchmun, her attacker had tried to snatch one of his clients, he was a tourist lodge in the North Island. "I was trying to tell the client the way we were going to borrow to set sail Péreybère when my assailant tried to tear me that customer.

He interposed between us and I swung before boarding the client, "says the alleged victim, who suffered facial injuries and other body parts. The taxi driver had complained to police her attacker from the airport.According to our cross, it has also filed a complaint against Riad Luchmun.

Following this umpteenth incident, the Airport Taxi Owners Association denounces what she calls "the climate of insecurity about his place of work and especially to tourists. Illegal operators adopt an aggressive stance in addressing the tourists. We urge the authorities concerned to assume their responsibilities, "says President Rajesh Ramgoolam.