taxi driver beat up woman for “lesbian who wouldn’t pay” | the Chronicle

A young woman, identified as Yeimy Paola Triana, denounced that on May 29 in the early morning was assaulted by a taxi driver because of her sexual orientation. Lesbophobia and discrimination occurred in the city of Bogotá, Colombia.

According to his complaint, he took the service from the Chapinero district to the Las Brisas district, in the city of San Cristóbal. Arrived at destination, the man charged him $ 40,000 for the ride, which seemed like an exaggerated price.

When you claim the driver for the high charges, he analyzed her appearance and asked her if she was a lesbian. The woman answered yes. Immediately after, the taxi driver started to verbally attack her, grabbed a cross and started hitting her. Until her head bursts and her nose breaks.

“My guy says it’s Chapinero 40,000 pesos so far. It’s absurd, I tell him it’s very expensive. He said to me: ‘Are you a lesbian?’ I say ‘Yes, but what does that have to do?’ . He answers’ Ah, nooo, the ‘macho’ won’t pay‘”, said the young woman in conversation with’ Citytv ‘.

The driver started insulting her at this point, then punched her inside the vehicle. “I can feel the panic. I grab my cell phone to call my sister, but he shuts the car and pulls out the crossbar and starts hitting me,” Yeimi said in a broken voice.

On your current state of health, the woman said she was waiting for an operation. This taking into account that, as he said, he ended up with injuries to his head (for which he was stitched), face, back and arm.

“It’s very sad, they don’t see the person beyond that. I consider myself a good girl, a good sister, to go through one of these things. I stand up, look at my face and say” this passage tobacco has no reason to be ”, he declared, regretting that the the attack included insults based on sexual orientation.

The attacked young woman said on the program ‘Sigue’ (from La W) that she had filed a complaint with the police with the license plates of the taxi; but they told him that “If not with an order from the prosecutor, they don’t give me the name of the owner of the car“.

However, this June 1, he received a call from the customer service department of the company Taxis Libres and they told him that they were going to help him. The taxi driver, for his part, He was previously fired from the taxi company and the Women’s Secretariat is already providing support to the young woman.