A 55-year-old taxi driver has been arrested for assaulting a 33-year-old transgender woman and her companion. The woman underwent surgery and has been hospitalized.
The incident took place in central Athens early Thursday morning, September 26, 2024.
According to the police report, the 33-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man hailed a taxi and got in. However, the driver became aggressive upon recognizing her gender identity.
He stopped the taxi, forced the trans woman and her friend off the vehicle got her and started punching and kicking them.
In effort to escape the violent attack, the woman fell into the glass entrance door of an apartment building. She sustained injuries and was taken to hospital where she underwent surgery.
The taxi driver was identified with the help of a video filming the assault by a member of a garbage collecting crew. The video had recorded also the license plate of the taxi, newsit.gr reported.
The driver, an Albanian national, has been charged with making threats of violence and causing serious bodily harm with a racist motive.
The case will be forwarded to the Athens prosecutor’s office.
“The driver, an Albanian national, has been charged with making threats of violence and causing serious bodily harm with a racist motive.”
Is sexist the same as racist now?
No matter what gender or race you are, it does not give another human being the right to physically or abusively attack another human being.Shame on him!!!