Global Courant 2023-05-02 21:42:27
It happened in the vicinity of the Villa Sapito neighborhood. The drivers maintained a strike throughout the morning demanding more security.
The drivers of bus line 178 held a strike this Tuesday morning to demand more security, after denouncing a shooting after an attempted robbery in a unit that occurred near the Buenos Aires district of Lanús, in the south of Greater Buenos Aires. Aires.
The episode occurred around 6 this Tuesday at the intersection of Camino General Belgrano and Centenario streets, in the Villa Sapito neighborhood. “It is the hottest point of the routes we have,” said a driver from the company La Colorada.
Two criminals got into the unit and demanded the passengers’ belongings. One of the travelers was a police officer from the City of Buenos Aires. For reasons that are the subject of investigation, an exchange of shots began. One of the bullets hit the SUBE card machine. There were no injuries and the robbers escaped.
The measure of force began at 8 until the service was restored around noon, after a meeting between the drivers and the company authorities. “It’s not the first time. It’s repetitive. We demand more security. We come to work,” demanded one of the bus drivers who was present at the meeting.
“We see these events daily. Many minors act with impunity,” he added in dialogue with TN. “They put patrolmen on us for two days and then we were left alone again,” claimed another of his colleagues.
Three days ago another group was robbed in Lanús
The event occurred three days after another assault in Lanús, in which a line 9 driver was assaulted by criminals who, after cutting his face with a knife, stole his belongings and escaped in Villa Caraza.
At 4:30 on Saturday, the bus driven by Gastón Gómez was traveling through Primera Junta and Pilcomayo streets, two blocks from the Villa Caraza terminal, and was surprised by at least three criminals to rob him.
According to the complaint, the thieves had boarded in the area of the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Nueva Pompeya as passengers.
Two other passengers were in the unit, who, upon seeing that a robbery was taking place, were able to escape the bus, throwing themselves from the vehicle.
The thieves attacked the driver with a knife with which they cut his face and stole a chain, his wedding ring, and the wallet in which the driver, in addition to his driving license and identity document, had no more than 500 pesos.
The driver of line 9 assaulted.
Fernando Morales, delegate of the General Tomás Guido line 9 company, said that the driver “was treated by an ambulance and referred to the ART.”
After that event occurred, a workers’ assembly paralyzed the service to demand safety for all drivers and passengers.
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