A group of taxi drivers from Florence would have tried to attack an NCC (Rental with driver) driver, chasing him to the front of the police station where he would have taken refuge. The episode is told in a note taken by the agencies from a national association for the private transport of NCC cars and tourist buses and a few days ago the announcement of the opening in Florence of the Uber Black service, that is the NCC version of the US giant that in Italia had opened and then closed its taxi service. Even the “Black” variant does not appeal to taxi drivers who have expressed doubts and criticisms in recent days.
“It is unacceptable what is happening these days a Florence. Several taxi drivers chase NCC regularly hired by the hour by the American Uber platform, take them back without authorization, insult and intimidate them. An escalation that saw the most serious episode happen last night, when an NCC was forced to flee from some taxi drivers and take refuge in the Carlo Corsi carabinieri barracks “. Thus in a note Francesco Artusa, president of the Transport System, association for the private transport of NCC cars and tourist buses.
“These taxi drivers did not give up, on the contrary, they called for reinforcements and then all of them were identified. There are about ten people”, explains Artusa. “Our Confederation – he continues – does not have much sympathy for all NCC service dealers, whether they are foreign multinationals or radio taxis, but we cannot tolerate improvised night executioners patrols and therefore we expect an immediate reaction from the mayor of Florence Dario Nardella and the Prefecture “.
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“People who work in compliance with the law in force – adds Artusa – have the right to be able to do it with serenity, then the police will intervene in the case of irregularities and certainly not of private citizens. Unfortunately, similar cases are not new, both because of public administrations that have often pampered taxi drivers beyond all reasonableness, even in the most violent fringes, and because of the superficiality of some press organs which, as in recent days, have reported the lies of some trade unionists who wanted the brokerage of Uber accessible only to NCCs with authorizations from Florence. It only took a little verification or the search for a replica to discover that it is fake. TO
provision, or with a time contract, NCCs can arrive from any part of Italy, as happened with the G20 in Rome and as required by law. And if, instead of the truth, one seeks provocation, the risk is that others will pay the consequences “.