A taxi driver and the female customer he had just dropped off were robbed this morning after 2am in Via Ceva in Milan, a scene captured by the car's cameras and now bouncing around social media.
The driver and the girl were trying to solve a problem with the POS when two men with helmets over their faces approached. One suddenly opened the taxi driver's door and threatened him with an object around his neck, telling him "Give me the money," the other broke the rear window where the girl was sitting and fought with her to snatch her bag. Then he opened the front door to help his accomplice who kept repeating to the driver: "Give me the money, come on, quickly."
When they snatched his wallet, he asked for it back for his documents and it took him a while to convince them that he wasn't hiding any more money while they threatened him: "Give us the other wallet or I'll kill you". The two took his two phones and then walked away, but not before snatching the girl's cell phone as well.
There were various reactions after the video of the robbery carried out on the night of December 24. "Here is the security in Sala's Milan," commented the Northern League's Silvia Sardone, while Secondo Francesco Rocca, municipal councilor of Fratelli d'Italia, the work of "taxi drivers, recently targeted by a certain political area" must "be valued and protected, especially in Milan; night-time attacks are not an isolated case, the presence of illegal taxi drivers near train stations and airports is clear and the lack of taxi ranks is well known."
(Online Union)
