Marcos (protected name), driver of an urban transport bus on line 6, was heading through the center of Quevedo, on 7 de Octubre street, near the administrative area of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS), when in the background from the unit a man was heard saying: “This is an assault”, then the subject along with an accomplice began to rob the passengers.
The robbery occurred at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 11. The thieves, two blocks before committing the assault, got on pretending to be passengers and even paid $0.30 for the ticket.
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That was the fourth robbery that Marcos suffered in a week. The other assaults occurred in the La Loreto Bajo sector, behind the Supermaxi and on June Guzmán avenue (downtown Quevedo), between Monday and Saturday.
On Friday, in the San Camilo parish, two other bus drivers, this time from line 12, were victims of assaults.
In one of the events the thieves fired and people were injured. This was the “straw that broke the camel’s back”, and because of this, the drivers of this line of urban buses that run along Revolución Ciudadana avenue, downtown, Gustavo Campi and Santa María, in the San Camilo parish, have been paralyzed since the afternoon. from Friday until this Sunday morning.
“I was born again, I have my wife, my children, my mother waiting for me at home. You can’t work like this anymore,’ commented one of the line 12 drivers, specifying that during the assault the thieves “didn’t even leave him his last name, they took everything”.
Alfonso Morán, one of the drivers of line 12 and who has also been a victim of assaults, indicated that the stoppage of the units was as a measure of rejection of so much robbery and with the hope of receiving the support of the Police.
For this Monday, starting at 06:00, the urban bus drivers plan to hold a sit-in on 7 de Octubre street, to ask for security for the union. However, said the leaders, the measure does not imply a stoppage of the service.
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After the sit-in, the transporters agreed to walk through the center of the city and finally arrive at the Quevedo Community Surveillance Unit (UVC), located on Avenida Quito, at 09:45 to hold a working meeting with authorities. Police, Interior and Political Headquarters of the canton.
But this planning could be disrupted by threats that they would have received from criminals.
The Police reported that to counter robberies and assaults on urban buses, they carry out operations by checking the interior of the vehicles. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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