Unprecedented! In an apparent outburst of uncontrolled brain cells, the President of Attica Taxi Association (SATA) said that taxi drivers cooperating with Uber “should be hanged at Syntagma Square” for being traitors – “Judas” as he called them characteristically. President Thymios Lymebropoulos uploaded his threats on the Facebook page of SATA on December 2nd 2014.
“Thymios Lymberopoulos, the outspoken president of Attica’s taxi federation, on Thursday declared that any cab drivers found to be working with international ridesharing service Uber, which recently extended its operations to Greece, should be “hanged.”
“Any cabbies who betray the taxi, like modern-day Judases, for 30 pieces of silver, should be hanged,” Lymberopoulos wrote in comments on his Facebook profile page. “The war has just begun,” he wrote, adding that all taxi owners should keep their eye on drivers renting their vehicles.
“The driver may be passing through the profession and might not care about tomorrow,” the federation chief said and warned against “allowing every opportunist to play with and undermine our wealth and our profession.” (ekatimerini, protothema)
During a promotion meeting of Uber with new cooperating taxi drivers on Thursday, Lymperopoulos and some other SATA unionists entered the hall, created some tension and police was called in to diffuse the tension. Lymperopoulos got the data of two Uber co-workers and is apparently preparing to file a law suit.
Apart form the law suit and the “hanging threats, the war SATA has declared against Uber includes also the expulsion of Uber-drivers from the Association.
Controversial ridesharing company Uber that has triggered strong reactions by professional taxi-drivers around the world, launched its Athens service last Tuesday.
PS in another country… in a parallel universe, the prosecutor would automatically intervene and lock him up for inciting violent actions and death…
BRING ON UBER…As an English guy that has owned property in Greece for 30 years I am disgusted by this, I clearly remember on numerous occasions hailing taxis in Athens, them pulling away if they did not fancy taking you to your destination…OR…Paying for a cab but the taxi driver pulling up to take extra passengers in the cab that YOU had paid for. Please hang the old taxi drivers of Greece not the new realistic taxi drivers that realise the world has changed.
things have got much better since the crisis broke out.