A taxi driver assaulted a tourist after thinking that he was coming from Uber – Observer

A taxi driver assaulted a natural tourist from Dubai to Chiado, Lisbon, on Tuesday afternoon. Apparently, the taxi driver will have thought that it was a driver of Uber, reads in the Jornal de Notícias.

The source of the PSP Lisbon Metropolitan Command confirmed to the same newspaper that he recorded the case of "a taxi driver who assaulted a national individual from Dubai", around 14:30. The victim, who was in the car with his youngest son, came to ask him for information.

The tourist, who was in the car with her youngest son, stopped to ask for information. When the driver realized, and thinking that it was an Uber driver, he began a discussion that ended in violence. A witness told the same newspaper that the taxi driver "had hit him with punches, pushing and kicking in less than two minutes," leaving the injured tourist, who was not injured. had "no aggressive reaction". firefighters and the PSP and was immediately identified. At the end of the afternoon of Tuesday, the record on the case that will follow for the court is still being drafted at the PSP if the tourist lodges complaint.

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