Fire shots were fired when taxi drivers involved in a brawl in the intercity bus terminal KTE of Kifisos in western Athens in the middle of the day on Monday.
One of the drivers was transmitted to a local hospital with bruises on the face and body.
A brawl between taxi drivers broke out on Monday afternoon at the Kifisos intercity bus terminal in western Athens, resulting in one person being injured and gunshots being fired.
According to Mega TV, the brawl broke out over a ride to the airport. A woman approached the first taxi waiting in line and when she said that she wanted to go to the airport, a pretty lucrative route.
Some other drivers came over, removed her luggage from the taxi and claimed the route. A brawl between the taxi drivers broke out and at some point one of the drivers held a gun in the air and fired three times.
Upon hearing the gun shots, horrified passengers who were about get into other buses, those who had just arrived and everybody else threw themselves on the ground to avoid being shot.
This was described by an eyewitness on TV channels and the man also admitted he was one of the drivers involved in the brawl. “I hit the man with a chair,” the eyewitness told ANT1 TV.
Other eyewitnesses told news website newsit.gr that it was three taxi drivers who attacked the man.
Police officers who arrived at the Kifisos KTEL found three shell casings.
Nobody has been arrested so far.
The incident took place around 4 o’ clock on Monday afternoon.
PS Port, KTEL, train and airport arrival points are highly preferred by taxi drivers for obvious reasons. However, you will often wonder why as a customer are not allowed to get the first vehicle in line but you will be advised by “a man” to another car in the back. You will often also see taxi waiting in line but no driver will give you a ride. Why is that? It’s the “silent” arrangement organized by illegal “unions” that give the best routes to “friends” or “relatives” or to the one who allegedly pays them the highest kickback.
For several years, the situation had normalized, however, the bad Greek “traditions” prevailed again and no authority bothers to bother them.
