“He punched him. We all went in to separate him, he was very aggressive,” complains the passenger
An incredible complaint was made by tourists, as one taxi driver he wanted to charge 100 euros to take them from the port of Piraeus to the center of Athens and as soon as they asked to see the taxi meter he beat them.
The young couple, alarmed by the exorbitant price, asked to see the taxi meter so they could pay accordingly, causing the taxi driver to “explode”. “He hit me in the teeth, blood was coming out of my mouth,” says Robin. “He was flapping his hands all over the place, he hit Robin straight and he hit me too but not that much,” Aneta told the Star.
The terrified couple of Austrians, He reports that the driver asked them 100 euros for a 20-minute ride, and then Robin told him, “Show me the meter, I want to pay the official price.” Then the driver became very aggressive and started shouting. “He was screaming “I will find you, I will find you” and I am very afraid that he will come on a motorcycle to look for us, because he knows that we live here,” says Aneta.
The other taxi drivers who were in front of the incident intervened to separate their colleague and the Austrian couple, with the perpetrator hitting some of them as well. “He punched him. We all went in to separate him, he was very aggressive,” says a taxi driver who was in front of the episode.
However, the phenomenon is not unprecedented. Another tourist says in his statements “when we took a taxi from the port to the city center, at first he told us a price but while we were on the road he asked for more”. A taxi driver, says characteristically “From Piraeus to the city center is about 25 euros. Last month the other asked for 230 euros from Piraeus to Pagrati”.