Worrying increase in violence and insecurity in public transport in Gran Canaria

 

This weekend a new attack on a Global driver was spread on social networks. In the video you can see how a group of young people confront the driver of the vehicle after asking them to get off while smoking inside, something prohibited. Several witnesses to the event stated that the group of young people who caused the altercations threw emergency hammers with the aim of injuring the driver.

 

This unfortunate event adds to the happened a week ago in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, where a passenger attacked the driver while calling the police. A few days ago, another video of an altercation on another Global bus was also published on social networks where You can see how some young people get out of the vehicle to continue a fight with blows in the street while comments from passengers such as “run him over now, brother” are heard. No further information has been released regarding this last event.

 

Global driver in San Fernando de Maspalomas:

 

 

 

These events, together with the recent attacks on taxi drivers on different islands, put the focus on the insecurity experienced by public transport drivers in the archipelago, being exposed on multiple occasions to blows and attacks by passengers who refuse to follow the rules. inside the vehicle. Already in February, Maspalomas taxi drivers demanded security measures such as cameras at stops and inside vehicles after the attack suffered by a colleague that ended with the vehicle door being ripped off.

 

Taxi driver who suffered an attack outside a shopping center in Playa Honda-San Bartolomé. Lanzarote