Brass knuckles and hammers used against Uberpop drivers

Posted on 17-03-2015 at 8:59 by CasperH – 66 Comments”

Masked men with hammers and knuckle-dusters assail drivers of Uberpop in Amsterdam, as confirmed by the police.

Meanwhile the criminal investigation department involved in the investigation of some “serious incidents” reported by the Telegraph. Drivers of the new taxi initiative, Uberpop say by the masked men are being harassed and have reported to the police. In one incident, police were able to two men to hold, after several taxis, a car of Uberpop after had hunted. The taxi was on the A10 surrounded and forced to stop, according to the Uberpop driver in a car with a roof-light of TCA. Next were the tyres of the driver to leak into the engine failure made by masked men from the other taxi’s. The driver got a knuckle duster against his throat, and set one told him that he was “on the list”.

That same evening was at the Rembrandtpark Amsterdam-West a other driver threatened with a hammer. Men with clownsmaskers and bivakmutsen got in the car of the Uberpoprijder. Two days later, there was a wild chase after an attack, where the police two suspicious taxi drivers has can persist. Unfortunately they were a day later, sent home with a summons for reckless driving, because the threat could not be proven. The taxiorganisaties for which the two arrested drivers are now informed about the actions of their employees.

Uberpop is a service that allows individuals to drive around as a taxi driver. This costs the professional taxi drivers, customers and money. There was growing protest among regular taxi drivers, but apparently it is now come so far that there are masked men with knuckle-dusters and hammers are required for customers to win back. But maybe it is better if the existing taxi services think about their rates and services. Customers never just go away, namely.